Philosophy Of Life Quotes

Who can understand the profound mystery of God?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

~ Plato

Art is the medicine for the soul.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Ibn Rushd caressing her body had often praised its beauty to the point at which she grew irritated and said, You do not think my thoughts worth praising, then. He replied that the mind and body were one, the mind was the form of the human body, and as such was responsible for all the actions of the body, one of which was thought. To praise the body was to praise the mind that ruled it. Aristotle had said this and he agreed, and because of this it was hard for him, he whispered blasphemously in her ear, to believe that consciousness survived the body, for the mind was of the body and had no meaning without it. She did not want to argue with Aristotle and said nothing. Plato was different, he conceded. Plato thought the mind was trapped in the body like a bird and only when it could shed that cage would it soar and be free.

~ Salman Rushdie

A sacred soul is a spiritual being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Spirit is life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Cry when you must. It relieves the soul of all pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love while light radiate from your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The chief significance of life is to find your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit dwells in a soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is spirituality of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest divinities of the soul are life, love and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until the sublime play ends with our death. The chapters and verses in our life story reflect what we value – how appreciative we are for our time to work, play, laugh, cry, and create.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Our ability to detect and measure the passage of time is burdensome. The conception and sensation of time bears down upon all of us. It weighs us down; it compresses our souls. There is a variety of ways to escape the dull passage of time or the fearfulness of our accelerating march towards death. We must choose our mechanisms for dealing with the inexorability of time and our finiteness. We can fill our void with work or pleasure, laughter or pain, and fretfulness or courage. We can seek a sense of purposefulness or acknowledge the meaninglessness of life. We can seek to escape the drudgery and pain of life through alcohol, drugs, or pleasure seeking, or by working to support our families and create artistic testaments to our worldly existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A narcissist with power will attempt to prove in the world only what is already in his head. He can't 'see' otherwise. For him, the 'outside world' is not beyond him and does not question or challenge him and his ideas. He is the world. Others will assent to his distorted worldview, because he is powerful, not because he is believable. If he possesses any reflection, that will be exactly what will gnaw at the narcissist with power most of all: his 'truths' are inauthentic, and he is a human being without integrity. The very narcissism and power he possesses prevent him from an ongoing relationship with the truth, which begins with self-humility and the curiosity this can create in a person.

~ Sergio Troncoso

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

~ James Qualls

The land of delight is holy sanctuary.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is beyond the physical.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

~ Munia Khan

They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy. And if you do not have empathy, then you will not gain, learn and remember valuable knowledge from your experiences, or those around you, so that you one day become wise. Yet most importantly, wisdom comes from having a good memory. If you do not remember anything, or are so disconnected from basic humanism to even care to dissect lessons to be gained from every experience in your life and from those around you - using simple reason and the juggling of feelings, then wisdom will forever remain a faraway planet to you.

~ Suzy Kassem

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our life today is a history of tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Since the beginning of the human tribe around 10,000 years ago, tell me, has there been a single day in our collective human history where a man did not kill another man?The anticipated answer saddens and empties my heart of any promise.

~ Adam Kovacevic

Humankind has turned the world into a cruel and at times inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

~ Christopher Earley

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.

~ Elif Shafak

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kindness is the sacred act to transform lives.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

And I sat there at the patio,while the whole of universe,was getting engulfed,in the whitest whiteness of snow.Down, near my rough paw,is soft snow,mannering a fidgeting embryo.I monitored the snow that plunged,on the soil of my backyard,and realized it melting fast.Was that the temperature or,my eyes on it overcast?While I think of this melted exalt,I am obliged to ask,What ought happens to the thoughts?Where do they get tossed?When they are forgot?Scorched?Scoffed?Deformed? Unadorned?

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

It could be my eyes, but my eyes have more sparks than those coffees.

~ Dishika Zaman Tasnim

Every flower blossoms in its sacred time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn't have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insolence.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The philosophy of life is the ultimate of finest thoughts that reflects yourself and your outlook about the world.

~ Debasish Mridha

Pain is there when you are born,Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it,laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.

~ Akash Lakhotia

You can read all the books in the world on the Nazi concentration camps and the gas chambers, and yet reality will draw upon you only when you are put through that yourself. It is a law of God, or nature, if you prefer, that pain, suffering and grief cannot be transferred or known by proxy. Neither empathy nor sympathy but experience alone is a valid currency of affliction. It alone makes you a card-holding member all allows you to join the club of the wretched of the earth. All else is counterfeit.

~ Kiran Nagarkar

A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah