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
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
-Samuel Dickey Gordon "S. D. Gordon"
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
-Steve Maraboli
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat and man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
