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- Remember
that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be
none the less free than you were before.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - I can think
of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to
do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are
at the best second rate.
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie - Life is
really like a ship - the inside of a ship, that is. It has watertight
compartments. You emerge from one, seal and bolt the doors, and find
yourself in another.
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie - Life is
best lived at the edge of folly.
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas Cook - There is
grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been
originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and
that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed
law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful
and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - Some things
were provided for my nature, love was one of them.
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George - Love arises
from nothing and creates as it goes. And without it, chaos is indeed
come again.
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George - Nothingness!
To accept the great nothingness of life seemed to be the one end of
living. All the many busy and important little things that make up the
grand sum-total of nothingness!
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence - We are,
to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall
have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation
will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of
office.
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris - "After
coffee. Worlds could be conquered, oceans could be crossed, women could
be seduced. After coffee. Life would be worth living again. After coffee."
Sanctuary by Nora Roberts - There is
a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea we are now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - Ambition
should be made of sterner stuff.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - The course
of love never did run smooth.
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - One touch
of nature makes the whole world kin.
Troilus & Cressida by William Shakespeare - Life's
but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
MacBeth by William Shakespeare