Ayn Rand

I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #life

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#metaphysics #philosophy #serenity #courage

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#change

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life #objectivism #life

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#motivational

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #life

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #love

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #life

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence... ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#human-spirit #freedom