I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
Quotations
Life
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
-Mahatma Gandhi
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
-Gordon B. Hinckley
There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 8.26"
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
Life's as kind as you let it be.
-Charles Bukowski
"Hot Water Music"
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
