This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-Robert Brault
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx