"If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important."

-- Dalai Lama

#Important Quotes #Worthwhile Quotes

“In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.”

Source : "Rafael Viñoly Takes The Opera Stage". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, observer.com. July 26, 2011.
“Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.”
“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”

Source : "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.
“Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?”
“[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to ***** or stop.”
“I am the best wrestler in the world.”
“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”

Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books
“I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.”

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