Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
—Jodi Picoult in Handle With Care
Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk