“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.” -Author Unkown

~*It is a very meaningful quote, that’s why I like it.

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now it’s too late.”

~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne dreamily. “I don’t exactly want to make people know more…though I know that is the noblest ambition…but I’d love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me…to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn’t been born.”

From Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

About “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”, yes it’s a quote by John Lennon.

One of my favorites: “I’d rather live misunderstood than trying to explain myself for the rest of my life.” – Willie Lamothe, country singer of Quebec (yes, we do have some!). RIP Willie!

“What leads bleeds.”, it was the best description of columbia; which turns out to be one of the least violent South American countries . From the times magazine.

Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.

I think it was John Lennon, but don’t quote me on that.

Once I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

10% if life is what happens to you, 90% is how you react to it.”