Appearance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came…

— Suketu Mehta

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely…

— Annie Dillard

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is…

— Richard Bach

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've…

— Neil Jordan

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

— Daniel Taylor

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

— William Shakespeare

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

— Novalis

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

“For we have every one of us felt how a very few minutes of the months and years called life, will sometimes suffice to…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and…

— Erik Pevernagie