Philosophy Of Life Quotes

Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?

~ Tom Robbins

Thoughts thoughts. Are they not mine?I think, I write, I type.Thoughts. Are they wise?Let truth be told in words, compiled together, create a page, a book. Thoughts. Are they master piece?Is it a prize winner?...An Alfred Nobel?Thoughts. Are they not mine? Gift of God?they are not mine.

~ Edna Stewart

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

~ Carl Rogers

Which one is right? Which one is wrong? When you feel you could answer that type of questions, you trapped on your own perception. -Back cover, Andante Part 1, English modified-

~ Ida R. Yulia

And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.

~ Alexander Maksik

Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.

~ Laren Grey Umphlett

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

~ Jude Morgan

In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of sight above him with horrid escarpments, a kind of frightful accumulation of things, of laws, of prejudices, of men, and of acts, the outlines of which escaped him, the weight of which appalled him, and which was no other than that prodigious pyramid that we call civilization.

~ Victor Hugo

There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

~ Jeremy Vaeni

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

~ R.n. Prasher

(...)Take your time, because thereisn’t a moment to spare,(...) That’s what Stein told me when I had to leave Menakfor the first time. It kind of means that wherever yourdestination is, now is the time to start working towards it,or you will never get there.

~ Daniel Z Hastings

Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.-The Rabbi-

~ J. Frank Dunkin

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Honesty is admired, and starves.

~ Juvenal

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

~ Richard Kearney

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.

~ A.b. Shepherd

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

~ Robert S. Mcnamara

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

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

~ Molly Ringle

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with

~ Sel

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

~ Ken Scott

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.

~ Liz Rosenberg

Try and avoid people who use the word cant regularly associate rather with those who say can and do

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.

~ Katina Ferguson

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....

~ Mahesh Shekhar

We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

~ Kenny Werner

Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part.

~ Robert Christian

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I’m just here to remind you that every human life is a bold and delicate projection of the eternal into the temporal.

~ Paul Kijinski

The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.

~ Michael Dwinnell

You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.

~ C.l. Wilson

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

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

~ Sidney Poitier

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

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.

~ Bryant Mcgill

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Life is a path to reach destination.However once it is reached ,implies Life had all kind of sharp turns one time or other for all

~ N.manoj

Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.

~ G.k. Chesterton