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 most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
-Audrey Hepburn
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
The human life is not meant for compromises, but to explore and tread the path
of life on the basis of your skills and talents.
-Deep Trivedi
