Life Quotes

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

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"Each of us is here for a reason and a season."
Audre Lorde
"I exist as I am, that is enough."
Audre Lorde
B
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Barbara Smith
B
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Barbara Smith
G
"No human being should go through life without knowing how to cook an egg."
Gloria Steinem
b
"To live fully, one must learn to embrace their shadow"
bell hooks
b
"To live is to continuously choose love over fear"
bell hooks
B
"Self-discovery requires stepping outside the roles society assigns to us."
Betty Friedan
B
"The search for identity is a worthy and necessary life project."
Betty Friedan
A
"Because I could not stop for death, I learned to live."
Angela Davis
W
"To live well, we must live in balance with nature."
Winona LaDuke
W
"We cannot eat money or drink oil."
Winona LaDuke
G
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
Germaine Greer
G
"In the real world, nothing happens at the right time and nothing happens when it is supposed to on schedule."
Germaine Greer
G
"This is what 50 looks like."
Gloria Steinem
G
"I try to live my life as a human being first and everything else second."
Gloria Steinem
G
"The most dangerous thing is not to feel alive."
Gloria Steinem
"The state of being fully alive is to be fully present to ourselves and our communities."
Audre Lorde
"When we protect seeds, we protect life itself."
Vandana Shiva
"The greatest threat to humanity is the same as to all species: the loss of habitat."
Vandana Shiva
"Food is the most intimate way we connect to the earth."
Vandana Shiva
"Every action we take ripples through all of nature."
Vandana Shiva
"Food security begins with seed security."
Vandana Shiva
"Every choice we make about food is a choice about life."
Vandana Shiva
"The earth will survive; the question is whether humanity will."
Vandana Shiva
A
"Life is most meaningful when dedicated to something larger than ourselves."
Angela Davis
B
"We are not born hating; we are taught to hate."
Barbara Smith
B
"The self is not fixed; we are always becoming."
Barbara Smith
A
"Living, real living, is sales and marketing and statistics. It's a lot of white noise."
Arundhati Roy
A
"I'm interested in how we're living now, and what that means."
Arundhati Roy