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
Life is but a dream for the dead.
-Gerard Way
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
-Charlie Chaplin
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
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"
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Snuff"
Life has become immeasurably better since I have stopped taking it seriously.
-Hunter S. Thompson
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
