You are the artist of your life. Your material is time. Your tool is action. Your life-work is your master-work.
- Edwin Adrian Nieves
Liv Ullmann: "I do not want to arrive..."
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
Pablo Picasso: "The meaning of life is..."
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
- Pablo Picasso
Seneca: "Begin at once to live..."
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
- Seneca
Rosa Parks: "You must never be fearful..."
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
- Rosa Parks
Frida Kahlo: "At the end of the day..."
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
- Frida Kahlo
Georgia O'Keeffe: "Whether you succeed or not is..."
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
Tupac Shakur: "If there was..."
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
Anaïs Nin: "My life is..."
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
- Anaïs Nin
Man Ray: "I never knew..."
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
- Man Ray
Claude Debussy: "How much has to..."
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
- Claude Debussy
Simone de Beauvoir: "I tore myself away..."
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Angela Davis: "You have to act..."
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
Carl Gustav Jung: "The meaning of my existence..."
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
Gary Vaynerchuk: "Don't say..."
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
Bruce Lee: "The function and duty..."
The function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
- Bruce Lee
Epictetus: "How long are you..."
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
- Epictetus
Albert Camus: "The only way..."
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