Philosophy Quotes

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

~ Harlan Ellison

Things do not change, we change.

~ Henry David Thoreau

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

~ Stephen Fry

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!

~ Dan Millman

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

~ Leo Tolstoy

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

~ Aristotle

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

~ Stephen King

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

~ Maya Angelou

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

~ Paulo Coelho

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

~ Epicurus

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

~ Virginia Satir

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

~ Virgil

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

~ Ann Brashares

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

~ Robin S. Sharma

A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be.

~ Forrest Curran

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

~ Bertrand Russell

For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.

~ Forrest Curran

One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.

~ Forrest Curran

As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.

~ Forrest Curran

We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.

~ Forrest Curran

Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments of splendor and beauty. Tattoo in an acknowledgment and tribute to home, and tattooing your beliefs that define who you are. Whether we intended to or not, every moment of our lives are tattooed to our heart.

~ Forrest Curran

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

~ Amit Ray

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

~ Joseph Campbell

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

~ Peter Kreeft

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.

~ Albert Einstein

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

~ Benjamin Franklin Wade

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

~ Terry Johnson

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

~ Laurence J. Peter

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

~ Dr. Seuss

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

~ Mo Willems

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

~ Douglas Adams