"Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more."

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Source : John Lachs (1998). “In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die”, p.136, Vanderbilt University Press

John Lachs

#Life Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“Don't you ever want to see what's on the other side of the hill?”
“Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.”
“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.”
“Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.”
“Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.”
“Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.”
“The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead be carefully watching the actions of groups like Freedom Partners, Chamber of Commerce, the Koch's big donor operation. The Club for Growth is another part of this, and Americans for Prosperity on the ground.”
“Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.”

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