This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Quotations
Life
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
-Khalil Gibran " Kahlil Gibran"
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
-Earl Nightingale "Earl Nightingale"
The horse who wins the race, but does not know the difference between dry and
green grass, for how long can he sustain himself in the race? Same is the case
with people who attain higher degrees or are scholars, but still do not understand
the realities of life.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland "Hal Borland"
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
