Philosophy Of Life Quotes

Kindness is the sacred act to transform lives. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are... It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It's like the perfume of a flower -- unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. And it can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth. ~ George Matthew Adams

If we have any role at all, I think it's the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved. In other words, we don't just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about. ~ Chinua Achebe

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

Your life purpose is not just one thing, nor just what you love to do, nor a role, nor a legacy you leave. Your life purpose is who you are 24/7. ~ Diana Dentinger

Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. ~ Andrea L'Artiste

I've begun to realize that behind every story there is a gap that nourishes wisdom with great strength. And people misunderstand it as the end. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back. ~ Karan Bajaj

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating. ~ Haruki Murakami

There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts ~ Valgame

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. ~ Henry Miller

Vengeance is waste of time ~ Amish Tripathi

What's in a view? A world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-) ~ Abhimanyu Jha

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life. ~ Oliver Burkeman

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world. ~ Robert Jordan

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Listen not to the words that have been spoken, but bend your ears to what has not been said. ~ Ian Segal

Once the roots of love have grown deep and firm,
the flowers will keep on blooming! ~ Avijeet Das

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, Not today. ~ Molly Ringle

Do not simply pay attention to the life, because the nature consists on different colors, if you entered into the colors they will soak you in a color which it is not your color. ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Like the river, keep on flowing. ~ Avijeet Das

These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports ... they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them ... that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity. ~ Kelli Jae Baeli

Things don't just happen the way they happen for your its own Creator,Mentor and Destroyer ~ Abhishek Sundarraman

I will miss myself in relation to others. The rareness. The exceptional differences. I will miss the gift that comes with hardship and paying the price. I will miss the tragedy of my own life. As I once spoke...emphatically, but I now repeat here, quietly - the pain, the pain is what made it so God damn beautiful. I endured. You can wait a lifetime for thirty seconds, five minutes, or for an hour to come into your life - a brief interval that makes all the suffering purposeful. In such moments of splendor and rapture - even if the rapture be stilled, the private hours and years of reckoning are unloaded, a burden lifted and the spirit feels as it did on the happiest day of its life when it was young and untormented Or rather, unconscious of the torment waiting to be ignited. ~ Wheston Chancellor Grove

Someday just someday I will do what I love all day. I will be who I really am somewhere. ~ Suyasha Subedi

As your consciousness becomes deeper and your intuition becomes firmer, you will begin to feel your inner voice that speaks to you always. This is when your spiritual awakening will take place and it will spread across your whole being. Keep your inner circle small, sacred and pure. ~ Avijeet Das

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

You don't want it, but the destiny oblige it ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

True love has no boundaries. It is vast as the ocean and limitless as the sky,! ~ Avijeet Das

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught. ~ Rose

She asked him "What do you do when you feel alone and lonely?"
And he said "I talk to the mountains! ~ Avijeet Das

The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. ~ Phyllis Diller

Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb. ~ Anirban Bose

Hope is a happy spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The clouds don't overthink; they just drift. ~ Avijeet Das

Love is the cruelest event. ~ Suman Pokhrel

Life is a gift. Accept the sacred existence ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect. ~ Louise Mullins

She: Do you always enjoy your struggle?

Me: Yes I do! There is no other meaningful way of living my life. My struggle to give voice to my thoughts is exhilarating. My struggle to channelize my thoughts to an audience is amazingly fulfilling. To write my feelings in words is greatly liberating. It is like my mind has all these thoughts and ideas that need to be shared with the esteemed audience!

She: What is your purpose of being a writer?

Me: A writer's life is a lonely life. The loneliness gives me time to be with myself. I am most happy when I am with myself. This loneliness is like my true existence. I don't need to search for a meaning in life. I have my struggle. I have a purpose. My reason for existence is my struggle to be a writer. ~ Avijeet Das

Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of the lie. Therefore, always tell the truth no matter how unpleasant it is. ~ Eraldo Banovac

An eye for an eye" is for the unwise:
Due to it, many a war did arise.
"Turn the other cheek" is for the clever:
Due to it, many a peace didn't shatter. ~ Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

What she offers the downtrodden, the broken, the lost – not an easy path, but direction and purpose – what more can we ask for? ~ Cage Dunn

Love a thing at a time. Many things will love you no more. ~ Suyasha Subedi

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die. ~ Taiye Selasi

Happiness is a frightening state of being. If we let ourselves be happy, then there is something that can always be taken from us. In one minute, one second, everything can change. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Everything is an appreciation, even an insult provided you look at it with that angle. ~ Vipin Behari Goyal

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies. ~ Sydney J. Harris

...it pointed to an alternative approach, a 'negative path' to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing insecurity, stopping trying to think positively, becoming familiar with failure, even learning to value death. In short, all these people seemed to agree that in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions - or, at the very least to learn to stop running quite so hard from them. ~ Oliver Burkeman

Love is a beautiful feeling. When you love someone life becomes beautiful. But in loving someone do not stop loving yourself too! ~ Avijeet Das

Life is a helluva journey. You face situations. You meet people. You try to understand situations. You try to understand people.
But you will never ever be able to understand people. You will never ever be able to understand why some things happen.

You feel you desperately need someone to support. But you won't find any support. You feel you need an anchor amidst the unpredictably nature of life. But there won't be an anchor. And you will feel your feet are losing their balance. You will feel you are falling down. You will feel the weight of life pulling you down. And you are drowning in the ocean. And you are shouting for help. But nobody can hear you because everybody is busy living their life to listen to you.

You thus you give up on people. You lose faith in people. You lose faith on life.

You just go on living life without feeling anything. You live life in a state of numbness and indifference.

And then one day you look at yourself in the mirror, and you have become a stranger to yourself! ~ Avijeet Das

If you're born rich, congrats! If not, take heart!
Options so abounding, the world so vast!
Nowadays there are no more alibis,
why we ought to remain poor all our lives.

We have this dictum where you I will tour:
"It is not your fault that you were born poor,
but it's already your fault, you died poor!"
What a great saying, big truth it conjures! ~ Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would be empty. And even though your children leave your nest, they always have one foot tethered to you. ~ Cindy Vine

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. ~ Marcel Proust

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too ~ Cecelia Ahern

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

The past and fool are the most dangerous weapons that poison our mind and heart ~ SANGEETHA MANIMARAN

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]. ~ Ernesto Che Guevara

Blessed is the heart that does not collect resentments and often dwells on them. ~ Swami Ranganathananda

The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths ~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. ~ Voltaire

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Trying to make everyone happy is equally illusionary as drilling holes in the water. ~ Eraldo Banovac

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. ~ Albert Camus

The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Each stage of your life
is like petals of a flower...
unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending. ~ Summerlyn Guthrie

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination. ~ Stella Mowen

And then she remembered the stranger. She had met him on an April afternoon. In his presence she had felt feelings that she had never felt before. The stranger had touched the innermost parts of her heart! He had done it by just his words. And his presence had made her feel as if she was in a spell! ~ Avijeet Das

If u know, Chess is the game that teach u about defense not strike.
Enjoy ur tempo and win the game! ~ Maylanie Citra Liem

There is more friendship ahead after we tell each other the truth. ~ Zain Abdul Nassir

The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Never grow weary of doing good. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The cure for sex is marriage;the cure for love is marriage;the cure for infidelity is divorce;the cure for unhappiness is work;the cure for extreme unhappiness is drink;the cure for death is a frail belief in the afterlife. ~ Julian Barnes

We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living if we are brave, love fearlessly, and remain optimistic regardless of our earthly hardships. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen. ~ Neel Mukherjee

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I think nothing is good, I really think it is. ~ Duop Chak Wuol

The roads do not know the length of their journey. The traveler must keep on traveling. ~ Avijeet Das

The mirror of life casts reflections that cascade the emotions. ~ Gillian Duce

Jam jamming," Meghan chanted in a sing song voice. "I like the idea, the feel. I KNOW what you are getting at. Where does a sound end? Has the Earth been pumping billions upon billions of horrendous noises into the depths of space since the time primates began walking? Can you imagine all the noisy concerts, explosions of war, and thundering of bombs, all drifting endlessly into empty darkness? Can you imagine? For infinity? Frozen glaciers, devoid rocks, suddenly illuminated to be crushed by all that deafening din, waking the inhabitants of other planets. Jamming alien satellite signals. If there is life out there, it wants to destroy us....I must be really stoned to see this so clearly ~ Jaime Allison Parker

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life ~ Aristotle.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something. ~ Elvis Presley

The world is a palace without bedsheets ~ Suchet Chaturvedi

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality . ~ Ashtavakra Gita

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down. ~ Terry Pratchett

When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old ... ~ Gaetano De Coubertin

Don't be nervous..be Excited ... ~ Gayan Fonseka

In our hunger for guidance, we were ordinary. The American Freshman Survey, which has followed students since 1966, proves the point. One prompt in the questionnaire asks entering freshmen about "objectives considered to be essential or very important." In 1967, 86 percent of respondents checked "developing a meaningful philosophy of life," more than double the number who said "being very well off financially." Naturally, students looked to professors for moral and worldly understanding. Since then, though, finding meaning and making money have traded places. The first has plummeted to 45 percent; the second has soared to 82 percent. ~ Anonymous

Only the shallowest person believes that they can attain true happiness by maximizing their wealth at any cost. In absence of morality, ethics, and a sustainable philosophy to guide us in an ethical search for happiness, we will always perceive life's random countervailing forces of adversity and unpleasantness as inflicting a great personal injustice upon us. Through application of a deeply embedded personal philosophy, we can push back against the negative implications of a life of suffering. We can use a philosophical stance to gain the perspective needed to say 'yes' to all of life, both its rosy path of ineffable joys and a blackened trail of tears. We must learn to accept life as it truly is and not waste precious time in wistfulness. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. ~ Italo Calvino

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. ~ Margaret Atwood

The stars shine a little brighter when I tell them about you. ~ Sirapa Malla

If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity ~ Richard L. Ratliff

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway. ~ Oliver Burkeman

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill. ~ Kelli Jae Baeli

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness. ~ Sidney Poitier

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill. ~ Herman Melville