Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
Quotations
Life
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-Plato "Plato"
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
-Epicurus
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
-Morrissey
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 like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
