Quote of Fernando Pessoa - Life is what we make of...

Biography - Fernando Pessoa:

Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher.
Born: 1888 - Died: 1935
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Portugal

Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

Fernando Pessoa

Translation

(French, German)

La vie est ce que nous en faisons. Les voyages, ce sont les voyageurs eux—mêmes. Ce que nous voyons n'est pas fait de ce que nous voyons, mais de ce que nous sommes.

Fernando Pessoa

Das Leben ist, was wir aus ihm machen. Die Reisen sind die Reisenden. Was wir sehen, ist nicht, was wir sehen, sondern was wir sind.

Fernando Pessoa

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi /

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau /

All about life...

Quotes for "to be" or about being:

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

to be

Become who you are!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

to be

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Simone Weil /

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes - Discourse on the Method /

All for "to be" or about being...

Quotes for: travel

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Laozi /

travel

Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.

Jean Racine - Les Plaideurs /

travel

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière /

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Émile Zola - Aventures du grand Sidoine et du petit Médéric /

Travel teaches toleration.

Benjamin Disraeli /

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

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Fernando Pessoa also said...

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Fernando Pessoa /

The only mystery is there being someone who thinks about mystery.

Fernando Pessoa /

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

success

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Fernando Pessoa

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Quote of Fernando Pessoa - Life is what we make of...

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Quotes for: travel

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