Life Quotes
“Life” is a smaller page than you might expect, and an older one. Seneca is the most-quoted of the classical writers, and the sourced entries run from Emerson’s journals in 1822 to Carl Jung’s memoir in 1963. Reading it is closer to browsing a shelf of moralists than scrolling a feed of captions.
One entry needs a warning. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” is credited to Søren Kierkegaard all over the internet. The earliest appearance anyone has located is in a 1976 book about Jack Kerouac, which is a long way from nineteenth-century Copenhagen. We keep it listed, with its flag, because people search for it. We would not put his name under it.
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."
"Sometimes in life you have to do the hardest things to get somewhere—to change your life."
Compared to what human life has mainly been like here on earth, our current societies are WEIRD.
Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.
The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.