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Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. – John Green
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all. – Leo Rosten
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” – Anthony Liccione
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. – Mickey Mouse
One should count each day a separate life. – Seneca
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. – Publilius Syrus
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. – Mark Twain
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney Harris
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. – Dr. Robert Schuller
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. – John Gunther
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. – Juvenal, Satires
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. – Juvenal
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. – Robert Brault
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire. – Honore' de Balzac
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years. – Unknown
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it. – Euripides
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. – Aesop
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. – Horace
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. – Charles E. Jefferson
How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past! – Mehmet Murat ildan
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self. – Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. – Aristotle
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. – Stephen Hawking

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