Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Life
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
-Margaret Mitchell
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
-Khalil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
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"
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
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
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"
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
