“You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.”

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“Do not be swept away by new slogans and leaders who had a doubtful past. Do not fritter away your time and energy in encouraging or participating in mushroom parties an organizations.”

Fatima Jinnah (1893–1967) Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman and one of the leading founders of Pakistan

“Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you once made. If you want different results, make different choices.”

Ralph Smart

“Your life is a reflection of standards you set for yourself. Raise your standards so will your quality of life.”

Ralph Smart

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”

Suzanne Weyn book Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“I do not see any morality in believing that your sins have been taken away on the cross, or from those who advise their followers to do whatever they want in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

“You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given. And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect.”

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) American author and screenwriter