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
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-Dalai Lama
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland "Hal Borland"
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-William Goldman
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
-Khalil Gibran
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
