Albert Camus Quotes

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

A man's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands.

There have been, in my life, a number of times when I have intentionally made decisions that I knew would mean I would make less money or be less influential. I did this because, for whatever reason, it just wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth the stress, it felt icky, it relied on me exploiting relationships that I valued. Stuff like that.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries.

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

I'll say anything to live.

There’s an old Arab saying … Let one hundred mothers cry, but not my mother – but better my mother than me.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Life's too short to be super conservative but it's also too short to make it any shorter. I don't plan on dying early, but at the same time I don't plan on playing it so safe that I'll live to ninety.

Most people, when they think about going into medicine, they think they have to give up their lives, and I was the prime example that you didn't need to do that.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.