Life Quotes

"We are incomplete beings always reaching toward completion."

"We are always in process; we are never finished."

"We are condemned to find meaning in a world that offers none."

"We must make the most of the interval between birth and death."

"The plane of immanence is life itself, continuous and without segments."

"To live is to express difference, not to suppress it."

"We must learn to dance with chaos rather than impose order."

"I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'"

"We need to recover a sense of the narrative unity of human life."

"The narrative of a human life is not something imposed from without but discovered within."

"We inherit narratives before we are able to choose our own narrative."

"The narrative unity of a life is the key to moral understanding."

"Human beings are storytelling creatures who make sense of life through narrative."

"A unified self emerges only through integrating one's life into a coherent narrative."

"Narrative is not a luxury but a necessity for making sense of our lives."

"We are our choices; freedom is the burden of creating ourselves."

"Emotions are not passive states but ways of engaging with the world; they are our projects."

"To say that we live in a world is to say that our life has a meaning, a direction, a value."

"Habit embodies our understanding of the world in our very being."

"The body's involvement in the world precedes conscious reflection."

"We are not spectators of the world but participants in its unfolding."

"All life is problem-solving."

"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."

"We are our choices."

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."

"Every individual is an infinite universe."

"One cannot be anything unless one makes oneself that thing."

"One is one's body, one's past, one's choices all at once."

"Emotions are not states of mind; they are engagements with the world."

"The moment you are most yourself is when you forget yourself."