John Galsworthy

Life calls the tune, we dance. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#determinism #fate #free #freedom #will

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#youth #love

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world! ↗

— John Galsworthy

#beauty

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#forced #get #into #man #out

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#done #else #his #man #nothing

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#beauty #doubt #ever #immoral #looked

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#cannot #future #think #you #your

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#deprived #did #different #evolved #himself

Headlines twice the size of the events. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#headlines #size #twice