“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” — Allen Saunders · Reader's Digest, 1957