She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.
—Daphne du Maurier in Frenchman's Creek
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
—José Ortega y Gasset
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible conclusions.
—Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.
—Rachel Marie Martin in The Brave Art of Motherhood
I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you'll have one of joy too.
—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World