Life Philosophy Quotes

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

~ Rick Riordan

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

~ Rick Warren

Never cry for the same reason twice.

~ Stephen Richards

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

~ Junot Díaz

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing.André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.

~ Jeremy Glass

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

~ Andrew James Pritchard

But who is ever fair in an argument?

~ A.b. Shepherd

Once you understand life--you understand life's potential.

~ Sean Baltz

Grass is always greener on your side, just switch places with your neighbor.

~ Saru Singhal

Keep your head high and your skirt down.

~ Marie Rudisill

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

~ Anthony Marais

Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.

~ A.b. Shepherd

The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being……tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own.

~ Robin Alleyna

...a small stream...sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it, look at your reflection in the water, and even wash your hands in it. It is yours, your personal stream. Yet you know that it has originated in the sea and is on its way back to where it has come from. When passing by your house, however, it is yours. You can say it is a personal moment you have torn out of eternity to keep in your pocket for yourself.

~ Fatemeh Keshavarz

Some people would rather be right that happy, I choose to be happy.

~ Catie Hartsfield

Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for... Be a game changer....The basic tenets of my life philosophy.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

~ Randy Komisar

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

~ John Le Carré

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring.

~ Haruki Murakami

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

~ Adam Smith

Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don't know that and who can't forget, and for whom such knowledge isn't a cornerstone of life.

~ Richard Ford

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

~ Peter Watts

Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.

~ Clyde Desouza

Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.

~ Ursula A. Ciller

The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

~ Will Schwalbe

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

~ Jane Austen

You're never too old to be young.

~ Paul Palnik

Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility offeelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.

~ Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.

~ Clyde Desouza

O man ! Do and Do something otherwise thou will have the only deposit of Zilch with thee.

~ Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

What was it Danilov told me before I left? Something about how one day I would stand at a crossroads where I could choose the Light, which illuminated the sky with its warmth and golden glow - or the Darkness, which at first seemed soothing and inviting, but which would consume me in its flames. But do I have to wait for that crossroads? Isn't it present at every moment of my life?

~ Peter H. Fogtdal

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

~ Jojo Moyes

The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

~ Anonymous

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating...

~ Cm Punk

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

~ Terry Pratchett

Fear of the unknown.They are afraid of new ideas.They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

~ Stieg Larsson