"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Act, Living, Meaning

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Act, Living, Meaning

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act, Quotation, Words

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

Act, Impulses

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Act, Books, Creation

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Act, Misery, Will

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Act, Consequences, Hesitation, Mind

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Act, Heaven

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"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."

Virtue, Envy, Feeling

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

Love, Existence

"It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called "human nature" is but one of its many manifestations - and often a pathological one - and the function of such mistaken definition usually has been to defend a particular type of society as being the necessary one."

Knowledge, Behavior, Philosophy, Understanding, Truth

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Art, Science, Creation

"The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market-it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself."

Philosophy, Observation, Behavior, Exchange, Needs

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

Faith,

"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

God, Man

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Cultural, Culture, Man, Weakness

"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."

Thought, Sanity

"Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain."

Philosophy, Freedom, Insecurity, Uncertainty, Humanity