Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
Quotations
Life
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
-J. Krishnamurti
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Snuff"
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston S. Churchill
