The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
-Margaret Mitchell
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.
-Charles M. Schulz
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
The whole life of man is self-expression… We suffer if we do not express ourselves.
-Anonymous "Perfect Liberty Kyodan"
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
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
