How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — François de La Rochefoucauld
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. — George Mallory
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. — Chavela Vargas
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson