to the life
(dated) Very closely resembling the original; drawn with great accuracy.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Nathaniel Hawthorne
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. Henry Miller
Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. Thomas à Kempis
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness... Boris Pasternak
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. Marcus Aurelius