From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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