Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself. Simone De Beauvoir
We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused... You have been described, do not accept any other description!
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Fuel your life with passion.
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Teresa Collins
So - people a thousand years from now... This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.
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Thornton Wilder
When I can’t fall sleep, I pray.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Work, pray and play not from here
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Eman Herzallah
More Quotes By Simone De Beauvoir
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to...
