You go on with your life, because life goes on, ” says Isabel. “You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example.” Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. “At first you think you can’t live with this, ” says the author, who just turned sixty-five. “It’s just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet.” “When you can, right?” “You have no choice! ” Isabel insists. “You cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up. Mark Matousek
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The quote "Life goes on, because life goes on" in the meaning of "Life goes on, because life goes on". Sometimes when you are in a situation that is difficult, the only way to get up is to keep moving forward. Life has to go on. People have to go on.

They have to keep trying, even if they are already in the depths of despair. The word "get up" in this quote means "get back up" or "get back into the game". It also means "get back onto the course".

Source: When Youre Falling, Dive: Lessons In The Art Of Living

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