She laughed and said, "Henry used to say we are living our life doing our 'gotta to do's', and that life is to short for gotta to do's!

她笑着说：“享利过去常说我们过自己的日子，做‘总得做的事情’，那种生活是‘总得做的事情’的简称！”

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If I have learned one thing it's that life is to short to take things to seriously and that you have to take life for advantage to be happy in a way.

如果我已经学会了一件事，那就是一生中认真的做一件事情太短，而且不得不以一种方式使自己幸福。

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He once said, "Life is too short to get bogged down."

他曾经说过：“生命短暂，不要停滞不前。”

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He had told a friend, "You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up.

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In short, the only thing to do in life is to provide, and provide is just what you cannot ever adequately do, as the husband in "Home Burial" knows.

总而言之，生命中唯一能做的就是给予，而且给予永远不够，像那个“家冢“中的丈夫知道的那样。

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But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

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