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
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
-J. Krishnamurti
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences, whether good or bad of even the least of them, are far-reaching.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
Life loves the liver of it.
-Maya Angelou
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
