#phil

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#life

Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #love #philosophical #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar. ↗

— W.N.P. Barbellion

#melancholy #philosophy #youth #life

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets. ↗

— Byrd Baggett

#honesty #life-lessons #morals #team-work #values

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#solitude #life

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from." "But what if he is your friend?" Achilles has asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. "Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?" "You ask a question that philosophers argue over," Chiron had said. H is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger in someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?" We hd been silent. We were 14 and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are 27, they still feel too hard He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis I cannot save them all. I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#fair #life #love #philosophy #truth

The most talented writer in the world is life itself and my books are alternative scenarios of what I read in it. ↗

— Barbara Rayne

#life #reading #writer #writing-books #writing-philosophy

Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be. ↗

— Kaitlin Hollon

#philosophy #questions #life

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#philosophy #time #vision #whimsy #life

Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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