Life Quotes

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

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"The good life is not a life without problems, but a life well-tended."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are not at home in the world; we make homes through endless tending."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To live is to be entangled in the messy materials of the world."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To live well is to attend carefully to the others with whom we share the world."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To live is to be entangled in relations of care and responsibility."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To live is to be constantly reoriented by what we encounter."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The present moment is the only place where life actually happens."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Symbiosis, not individual autonomy, is the foundation of life."
Haraway, Donna
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"Life is not a journey; it is a network of relationships."
Callon, Michel
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"Pleasure and pain are not simple opposites but intertwined experiences."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
Law, John
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"Every person carries a universe within them."
Law, John
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"Resonance is what makes life worth living."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The good life is not the fast life but the full life."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The goal of life should be resonance, not accumulation."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Resonance is not a luxury but a necessity."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We must learn to be multiple, to exist in different contexts and configurations."
Callon, Michel
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"Life rewards the diligent."
Law, John
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"Enacting norms means living them, embodying them, making them real in practice."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Doing is being, and being is doing."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The world is not pre-given but constantly enacted."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To live is to enact reality through our practices."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Multiplicity is the default condition of existence."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care is the condition of possibility for all other practices."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are all hybrids in a world of hybrids trying to maintain impossible purities"
Latour, Bruno
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"We live as though we have infinite tomorrows and finite todays."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The greatest lie modernity tells us is that we can have it all if we are just efficient enough."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The decision to feed the world is the real decision. Food is first a product of the human relationship to the earth."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The woman who doesn't feel torn in different directions is probably trying to feel nothing."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Life is not about finding ourselves; it's about creating ourselves."
hooks, bell