Quote of Simone de Beauvoir - To choose life, is to always...

Biography - Simone de Beauvoir:

French writer, intellectual and philosopher.
Born: 1908 - Died: 1986
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

To choose life, is to always choose the future.

Simone de Beauvoir

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"To choose life, is to always choose the future. Without this choice which carries us forward we would be nothing but vegetation on the face of the earth."

Translation

(French, German)

Choisir la vie, c’est toujours choisir l’avenir.

Simone de Beauvoir

Sich für das Leben zu entscheiden, heißt sich immer für die Zukunft zu entscheiden.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

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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 /

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

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

Henry David Thoreau /

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

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To choose, and therefore exclude.

Henri Bergson /

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The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte /

In one sense choice is possible, but what is not possible is not to choose. I can always choose, but I must know that if I do not choose, that is still a choice.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

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There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

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Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.

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Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.

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The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex /

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To will oneself free is also to will others free.

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