Karen Horney on Life
Monday, July 21st, 2008The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
- Karen Horney
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
- Karen Horney
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
- Karen Horney
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
- E. B. White
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
- Quentin Crisp
Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov