Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Life is too short to waste it on things that don't matter to you."
Steve Wozniak
"The greatest problem of our time is that we are dying without living."
R.D. Laing
"We are dying into life."
R.D. Laing
"We are born into a kind of death."
R.D. Laing
"Life is about choices. Make the right ones."
Linus Torvalds
"The journey is more important than the destination."
Sundar Pichai
"We are alive, yet we are dead in so many ways."
R.D. Laing
"Suffering is not a disease; it is a symptom of living."
R.D. Laing
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"Life is too short to spend it serving someone else's vision without question."
Richard Stallman
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"The most important code we write is the code of our own lives and values."
Richard Stallman
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
Tim Cook
"The journey is more important than the destination."
Tim Cook
"Life moves too quickly to waste it on resentment or regret."
Sundar Pichai
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"We are all looking for the object that will complete us, but it is forever lost"
Jacques Lacan
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"We are all searching for the lost object that would make us whole, yet wholeness is impossible"
Jacques Lacan
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."
R.D. Laing
"We are dying. We are not well. Our greatest anguish comes from our inauthentic living."
R.D. Laing
"We are murderers. We slaughter ourselves each day in countless small ways."
R.D. Laing
"The goal of life is not happiness but authenticity."
R.D. Laing
"To be fully human is to be fully alive to your own experience."
R.D. Laing
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"It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living."
D.W. Winnicott
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"Our first year of life is what shapes our entire existence."
Anna Freud
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"The child's life is not in our hands; it is in the hands of life itself."
Anna Freud
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"We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb pain, we numb joy as well."
Anna Freud
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"We are shaped by our earliest experiences."
Anna Freud
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"Life is not about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself."
Anna Freud
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"The real task is not in understanding what neurosis is, but in living."
Karen Horney
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"The person who has no conflicts is not living fully."
Karen Horney
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"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
Bruno Bettelheim
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"Man's life is the only one we really know anything about."
Bruno Bettelheim