Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
Quotations
Life
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
-Charles G. Stater "Charles. G. Stater"
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people I need to meet, to the situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be.
-Swami Dhyan Giten "Swami Dhyan Giten"
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
-William Shakespeare
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.
-Anonymous "Anonymous"
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"
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
