You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
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"
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-Robert Brault
I created you human beings because I desired to see you lead a joyous life.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
