"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.”
“If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
“Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.”
“It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.”
“You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.”
“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.4, Counterpoint Press
“Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.”
“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan

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