Context

This line is spoken by the narrator, voiced by Elisabeth Shue, in the movie Tuck Everlasting, directed by Jay Russell (2002).

When a 15-year-old girl named Winnie (played by Alexis Bledel) meets a handsome young man named Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson), he turns out to be a lot older than he looks. Thanks to a magic spring that everyone in Hollywood would kill to drink from, Tuck is over 100 years old!

Of course, Winnie is confronted with the choice of whether or not to drink from the spring. Well, spoiler alert, she chooses not to, because she would basically be hunted forever for the secret to her immortality. Winnie chooses mortality and the narrator tells us the advice Tuck gave her—that you don't have to live forever, you just have to live. And she did live: Winnie died at 100, married and happy with children and grandchildren.

Not a bad life, even with all its wrinkles.

Where you've heard it

You've heard this from an inspirational greeting card during one of those "live like you were dying" moments.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

This inspirational quote is too Hallmark-channel generic to be pretentious.