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Daily Inspiration Quote by Laura Dern

"That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love"

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Laura Dern’s line lands like a little manifesto smuggled into casual speech: life, she suggests, isn’t primarily about achievement or self-mastery, but about mutual ignition. “To turn each other on” is doing double duty here. It’s obviously erotic, but it’s also social and creative: to spark someone’s curiosity, confidence, sense of possibility. In a culture that loves the language of individual wellness, Dern reroutes the idea of feeling good away from solitary self-care and toward relational electricity.

The structure matters. She stacks three impulses - turn each other on, feel good, feel in love - as if they’re the same engine at different temperatures. That collapsing is the subtext: attraction, pleasure, and love aren’t separate compartments you earn access to; they’re overlapping states you move through with other people. It’s also quietly anti-puritan. She refuses the apologetic tone that often surrounds women talking about desire, especially women whose public lives invite endless moral auditing.

Contextually, this reads as an actor’s truth, not a philosopher’s. Dern’s career is full of characters navigating the messy border between intimacy and identity, from art-house vulnerability to prestige-TV complications. The quote echoes that worldview: connection isn’t tidy, but it’s the point. There’s a slight defiance in the dash - “That’s life” - a shrug at the cynics. Not naive, just insisting that pleasure and love are not distractions from living; they’re its proof of charge.

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Dern, Laura. (2026, January 16). That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/thats-life-to-turn-each-other-on-to-feel-good-102110/

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Dern, Laura. "That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/thats-life-to-turn-each-other-on-to-feel-good-102110/.

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"That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/thats-life-to-turn-each-other-on-to-feel-good-102110/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Laura Dern (born February 1, 1967) is a Actress from USA.

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