When I stand before

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. Erma Bombeck

To live is so

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson

Life must be lived

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has a

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t want to

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman