This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Quotations
Life
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
The whole life of man is self-expression… We suffer if we do not express ourselves.
-Anonymous "Perfect Liberty Kyodan"
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
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"
