Being Bornyourself Quotes

#1. The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Ben Jonson

#3. Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day.

Jennifer Niven

#4. One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

Dan Pearce

#5. My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

Sri Chinmoy

#6. I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Hermann Hesse

#7. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

Louis Sachar

#8. Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Horace

#9. About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.

Mark Bradford

#10. Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Paulo Coelho

#11. You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world Because when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world

Siobhan Fahey

#12. The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Elizabeth Bowen