This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Quotations
Life
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
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"
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
-Quran "Quran 6.162"
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive.
-George Allen "George Allen"
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart.
-Charles G. Stater "Charles. G. Stater"
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"
