If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
Quotations
Life
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
-Eckhart Tolle
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Hilary Cooper
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
Do not race after riches, do not risk your life for success, or you will let slip the heaven within you.
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 29"
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
