I believe in caring deeply and being beyond caring.

I believe in working passionately to make our lives count while never losing sight of our insignificance.

I believe in reckoning with the ultimate meaninglessness of our existence, even as we fall in love with the miracle of being alive.

I believe in cultivating opposite, but complementary views of life, and I believe in meeting life's challenges with contradictory strategies

but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.- Agatha Christie

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.- Grandma Moses

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Ei

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.- Michael Vance

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.- Thornton Wilder