Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
Quotations
Life
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"
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
-Jimi Hendrix
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love"
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
-Benny Bellamacina
"The king of Rhyme"
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
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
