"... you shouldn't go through life ...."

 

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."

"The years seem to rush by now ...."

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey – double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

George Eliot