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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
-Nicholas Sparks "Nicholas Sparks"
