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"
Quotations
Life
If you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you.
-Mirra Alfassa "Mirra Alfassa"
There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.
-Kris Carr
"Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!"
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others but with yourself.
-Shannon L. Alder "Shannon. L. Alder"
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
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
-Jim Rohn
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
-Oprah Winfrey "Oprah Winfrey"
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
