life is a kind of Labyrinth, with all its twists and turns, its straight paths and its occasional dead ends.

Life is a perpetual struggle against disruption and chaos.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

...living is merely the chaos of existence...

KEEP IN MIND THAT progress is not always linear. It takes constant course correcting and often a lot of zigzagging. Unfortunate things happen, accidents occur, and setbacks are usually painful, but that does not mean we quit.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.

This life is a one-way street.

However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.

Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist. Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way. That's a deep truth about the structure of our universe. But, for some reason, we insist behaving as if it were not true.

Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.