"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated " — Confucius

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Source: Middlemarch (1871-1872)

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live

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