We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. – Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945, referring to psychoanalysis
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. – Ovid
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. – Heywood Broun
Life is a long process of getting tired. – Samuel Butler
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. – Moroccan Proverb
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. – Henry Ward Beecher
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz
There is no finish line. – Nike advertisement
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. – Sherwood Anderson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. – Thomas Jefferson
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. – William Lyon Phelps
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. – James Russell Lowell
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. – Fred Allen
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. – Chinese Proverb
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. – Douglas Adams
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
