Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer  but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward  but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus

Basically  I&#039;m interested in friendship  sex and death. — Sharon Riis

Such as we are made of  such we be. — William Shakespeare

Life is seldom as unendurable as  to judge by the facts  it logically ought to be. — Brooks Atkinson

Birth  copulation and death. That&#039;s all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — T. S. Eliot

Life is an offensive  directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe. — Alfred North Whitehead

There is no cure for birth and death  save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana

We never live  but we are always in the expectation of living. — Voltaire