People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.
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.
Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear
To you than life. If not, your course is clear.
At stake with something more important than sex. At stake was life and death.
It's impossible not to admire a person who devoted his life to his ideas.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.
You know that you are a human being, and I know that I am the Avatar. It is my whole life!
I take the greatest lesson from compassion — it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
There’s always work that must be done...Life’s so simple when we simply work to make it fun.