I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer, “I acted.” I want to be able to say, “I loved, and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.”
- Liv Ullmann
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Pablo Picasso
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
- Seneca
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
- Rosa Parks
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
- Frida Kahlo
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you.
- Georgia O’Keeffe
If there was no money, and everything depended on your moral standards, the way that you behaved, and the way that you treated people, how would you be doing in life?
- Tupac Shakur
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
- Anaïs Nin
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
- Man Ray
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
- Claude Debussy
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
- Angela Davis
The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Don’t say you are going to be great unless you realize you have to become obsessed. You can’t be the best at something in the world passively…Make your actions map your words.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
- Bruce Lee
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
- Epictetus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus