Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Karen Horney on Life

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

- Karen Horney

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Jose Ortega y Gasset on Life

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

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

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James M. Barrie on Life

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Life is a long lesson in humility.

- James M. Barrie

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Karen Horney on Life

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

- Karen Horney

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Umberto Eco on Life

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

All life is an experiment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Jonathan Swift on Life

Friday, April 25th, 2008

May you live every day of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

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E. B. White on Life

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

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

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Quentin Crisp on Life

Monday, April 7th, 2008

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

- Quentin Crisp

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Anton Chekhov on Life

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day to day living that wears you out.

- Anton Chekhov

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