Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...
— The Second Sex
Quotes About Life
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
— Thoughts on Art and Life
Paper is more patient than man.
— The Diary of a Young Girl
At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.
— Joseph and His Brothers
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
— The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
— Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
— The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
— Love and Responsibility
O friend, for the morrow let us not worry / This moment we have now, let us not hurry / When our time comes, we shall not tarry / With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
— Don Quixote
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
— The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake
— The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you. And then just when your regrets are the strongest the wisteria comes into bloom, and it blooms on into the summer. There is nothing quite like it. Even the color is somehow companionable and inviting.
— The Tale of Genji
But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Life is not fair, get used to it
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?