Quotes By Author: Danny Wallace

“The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind otherwise life will just pass you by. You’ll be an observer, rather than a participant. Does that make sense? – 75”

“If we have faith that some higher powers, some enlightened beings, are helping us to develop spiritually, then you begin to relate to life completely differently. And I suppose life starts to become a little more magical. Every opportunity must be seen as a chance to learn. We have to be open to whatever happens, good or bad. Because anything that happens is a chance to increase our wisdom, and to walk further down the path to enlightenment. So if you miss the bus, that’s an opportunity to learn. If you become ill, that’s an opportunity to learn something new, like compassion maybe. – 319”

“The thing I realised instantly was that at first, Wag had blamed all of this on luck. But he’d made that luck happen. He just hadn’t realised it. He’d made a series of ‘correct’ choices, which had let him, bass in hand, to his girl. Maybe we can all do that. Maybe we can all change our fortunes. Maybe there’s no such thing as destiny – there’s just a series of choices we create ourselves. I guess it’s only when we look at how a No could have changed our lives for the worse that we realise the value of the tiny yeses that fly at us each day. – 293”

“But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.”