We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Life
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Quotes by E. M. Forster
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Life
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Wisdom
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
Wisdom
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
Freedom
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Wisdom
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Life
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Wisdom
Love is always being given where it is not required.
Love
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
Wisdom
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
Love
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Friendship
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
Wisdom
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Wisdom
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
Life
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
Wisdom
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Wisdom
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
Love
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Wisdom
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
Life
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Love
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Wisdom
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
Love
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Wisdom
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