You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Life
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
-Khalil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
-Proverbs "Sanskrit Proverb"
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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"
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
-Socrates
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"
