It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.
I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.
I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.
It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
The examined life is no picnic.
The examined life is the only life worth living.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
Life is all about balance. My work is very important to me, but so are my relationships. I make time for that aspect of my life, and it makes me happy having balance in my life.
I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.