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
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
-Jimi Hendrix
The combat of life is greater than every other earthly combat.
-Plato
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
