Decades Quote by William George Jordan

“Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.”

William George Jordan

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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

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Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

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Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

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Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.

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