Lifetime

Also known as Livstid

Notable quotes

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.~~ 1931”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years," using the word pilgrimage in reference to life on earth, which the pious regard as a temporary sojourn in alien lands.”
— Louis Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews (1909)
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin, as quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126.
“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.”
— Henry J. Tillman, as quoted in In Your 60s (2009) by Judy Valon, Wakefield Press; and in Pathological Altruism (2012), edited by Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan, and David Sloan Wilson, Oxford University Press
“All that a man hath will he give for his life.”
— Job, II. 4.
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 6, conclusion (vol. 2 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau), p. 170 (1906, reprinted 1968). Originally published in 1854.

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