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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Ayn Rand
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.”
Keith Richards
“This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.”
Keith Richards
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
Tony Robbins
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
Tony Robbins
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
Tony Robbins
“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
Tony Robbins
“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
Tony Robbins
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
Tony Robbins
“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”
Tony Robbins
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
Tony Robbins
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
Tony Robbins
“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”
Tony Robbins
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
Tony Robbins
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
Tony Robbins
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
Henry Rollins
“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
Henry Rollins
