Life Lessons Quote by E.M. Forster — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”

“Eccolo!” he exclaimed.”

“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

“We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.”

“Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.”

“Rise and thrive regardless of how difficult things have been in the past. When you choose a path that transforms your life and helps you overcome, you will begin to see incredible results.”

“There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything”

“A Person Who Has Become Immortal by Drinking The Nectar Of Sorrow Is Never Ready To Drink The Poison Of Happiness.”

“Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?”

“A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.”

“I am convinced--truly convinced-- that 99% of living is useless. The only--and I mean the ONLY--part of life that is worth anything, is the part where we love a few people in our lives, and to what degree we are able to love them, how much we are able to give, how much of our hearts we are able to put into it. Time moves fast forward; meanwhile, we spend that time on making money, chasing dreams, building names for ourselves, achieving stuff that we want to achieve...time moves fast forward and instead of standing in moments with a few people that we love, we run fast forward with it! We forget how to love a few people given to us to love, we forget how to stay, we forget how to feel, we forget, we forget, we forget, so we can run towards death, leaving behind a house perhaps; kids perhaps; a bank account hopefully; a name worth remembering maybe. But did we love? Did you love? Did you stay? Did you love with all of your heart? Did you? Will you?”