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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
-J. Krishnamurti
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
-Mitch Albom
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
-Jimi Hendrix
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
-Oprah Winfrey
Why don't you simply understand that events are happening outside and your life
is within you. Then whatever happens outside, why should your life be affected
by it ? It does, because you forcibly perceive yourself being attached to it.
-Deep Trivedi
