We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Quotations
Life
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
In three words I can sum up everything I've learnt about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho "Paulo Coelho"
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
