Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The world is a sticky place."Ahmed, Sara
"We are all made strange by the world."Ahmed, Sara
"The world is full of things that touch us unexpectedly."Ahmed, Sara
"The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of the questions we ask."Gupta, Akhil
"What we believe about ourselves determines what we become."Gupta, Akhil
"Life is the story we tell about ourselves; make it remarkable."Gupta, Akhil
"Becoming is the fundamental condition of existence."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We inherit not just genes but ways of being in the world."Puar, Jasbir
"We must learn to live with precarity as a fundamental condition."Puar, Jasbir
"The continuity of life is perhaps the most remarkable fact of nature."Charles Darwin
"To be oriented is to be at home; to be disoriented is to be lost."Ahmed, Sara
"We are all works in progress, forever being written."Ahmed, Sara
"To be alive is to be constantly making meaning."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The body is a site of both constraint and freedom."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"Law, John
"All the world's a stage, and life merely a play"Law, John
"To be alive is to be entangled with others."Mol, Annemarie
"What matters is not what we inherit but what we do with it."Mol, Annemarie
"Messiness is not something to overcome; it is where life happens."Haraway, Donna
"The self is not something ready-made, but something to be continuously constructed through our interactions with others."Ahmed, Sara
"We are shaped by what we attend to, so we must choose carefully where we direct our gaze."Ahmed, Sara
"We are always already dying, and we might as well live productively in the face of that mortality."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The body is a threshold, a meeting point between self and world."Braidotti, Rosi
"Being alive means being entangled with forces beyond our control."Braidotti, Rosi
"The self is a fiction but a necessary one for living and acting."Braidotti, Rosi
"Life is the grand experiment in which we are both scientist and subject."Law, John
"Affirmation requires us to say yes to life in all its complexity"Grosz, Elizabeth
"We create meaning through our engagements with others and the world"Grosz, Elizabeth
"Affirmation means saying yes to life's complexities and contradictions"Grosz, Elizabeth
"The body is not a fixed entity but a process of becoming"Grosz, Elizabeth