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