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Life Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
- What I leave behind has a life of its own.
- Art is not living. It is the use of living.
- When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered,…
- Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel…
- I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the…
- I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
- Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a…
- [Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through…
- What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once…
- We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force…
- There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle