Life is to be lived
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
– Ralph Ellison
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- Education is all a matter of building bridges. – Ralph Ellison
- Life must be lived as play. – Plato
- Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. – Ralph Ellison
- To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived that is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Just because a woman is over fifty does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo?
- Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. – Anais Nin
- 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
- Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life. – Debasish Mridha
- It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. – George Bancroft