Life Quotes

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

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"Were women to live as they ought, they would live with purpose."
Florence Nightingale
"Life is not something that happens to you; it is something you create."
B.F. Skinner
"Personal growth requires honest self-assessment and continuous adjustment."
B.F. Skinner
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"The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
Carl Jung
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"The greatest threat to modern man is not disease or poverty, but meaninglessness."
Carl Jung
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"Meaning is not discovered but created through the process of living consciously."
Carl Jung
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"We are living systems; we exist in language."
Humberto Maturana
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"Living systems are characterized by their organization, not their components."
Humberto Maturana
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"Reality is not given; it is generated through our living."
Humberto Maturana
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"A person is a living system that exists in language."
Humberto Maturana
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"Life is a continuous process of self-creation."
Humberto Maturana
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"We are living systems nested within living systems."
Humberto Maturana
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"The structure of a living system is determined by its history."
Humberto Maturana
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"Becoming is the essence of living; being is an abstraction."
Humberto Maturana
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"To live fully is to participate consciously in the generation of reality."
Humberto Maturana
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"A person is, so to speak, not yet born when only twenty years old."
Sigmund Freud
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"Childish features are preserved in the normal human adult."
Sigmund Freud
"Life is like physics. You have to learn the laws and work within them."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"Life is a laboratory, and we are all scientists experimenting with our existence."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"Life is full of surprises. Embrace them with courage and curiosity."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"Life is what you make of it. Choose your path with wisdom."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"Life is precious because it is temporary. Make every moment count."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"The life well-lived is one dedicated to alleviating the suffering of others."
Edward Jenner
"To prevent one death is to preserve an entire world of possibilities."
Edward Jenner
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."
Lise Meitner
"Every breath we take is part of a dialogue with the living Earth."
James Lovelock
"Life gives us infinite opportunities to learn if we pay attention."
James Lovelock
"Is life not a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?"
Florence Nightingale
"The true measure of a life is not its length but its depth and meaning."
Florence Nightingale
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"We are biological systems that generate meaning through our interactions."
Humberto Maturana