Having the Time of Your Life: Little Lessons to Live By
By Allen Klein
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Allen Klein
Allen Klein is an award-winning professional speaker and author. His books Quotations to Cheer You Up When the World is Getting You Down and The Lift Your Spirits Quote Book have sold over 500,000 copies. He lives in San Francisco.
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Having the Time of Your Life - Allen Klein
INTRODUCTION
When I was a youngster, LIFE magazine was my television. Every Thursday afternoon, it brought the world to my mailbox. It showed me that there were ways of living that were very different from my fifth-floor-walkup Bronx existence. In addition, it showed me the commonalties, struggles and celebrations of all people.
LIFE, the magazine, was also material for a bantering word game I played with my friends. We would repeatedly ask each other:
What’s life?
A magazine.
How much does it cost?
Twenty-five cents.
I only have a dime.
That’s tough.
What’s tough?
Life.
What’s life?
A magazine…
LIFE magazine suspended weekly publication many years ago, but the question of What’s life?
still is an intriguing one. Perhaps it is because there are so many answers to such a simple question; perhaps it is because none are right or wrong.
I was hoping that after collecting over 500 quotations that ponder this question, I might have a definitive answer of what life is. The best I could come up with at the end of my research, however, was that life was a magazine I used to read when I was growing up.
Allen Klein
San Francisco
L’Chaim! (To life!)
JEWISH TOAST
What’s Life?
What’s a life, anyway?
We’re born, we live a little while, we die.
E. B. WHITE
Getting born is like being given a ticket to the theatrical event called life. It’s like going to the theater. Now, all that ticket will get you, is through the door. It doesn’t get you a good time and it doesn’t get you a bad time. You go in and sit down and you either love the show or you don’t.
If you do, terrific, and if you don’t—that’s show