Life-philosophy Quotes

The first day of the rest of my life.

There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in pr...

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we th...

Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle h...

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ...

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude w...

Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and peopl...

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answere...

At that period I paid as constant attention to the greater securing of my happiness, to enjoying and...

We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the gl...

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yo...

Life is about execution rather than purpose.

But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator’s ...

I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out...

They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complai...

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do d...

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

Die slowlyHe who becomes the slave of habit,who follows the same routes every day,who never changes ...

It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine.If you have two pieces of...

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?""They were lo...

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life mig...

He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One co...

And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others be...

Sonnet: Political GreatnessNor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill i...

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...

The Apple Orchard Come let us watch the sun go downand walk in twilight through the orchard's green....

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that ...

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so...

Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or...

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit aro...

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything exc...

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating...

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short a...

We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us...

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men liv...

Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?‘Yes. Yes, of co...

We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us...

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make ...

That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

Pretty Stones

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one fo...

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rathe...

Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all ...

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

No," said Blackwell, "she won't, because that would be a violation of the very personal terms I will...

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the...

… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going...

But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solv...

What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate’er we lose?And trust m...

Man does not steal, he conquers

Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are...

Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and e...

Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language,...

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love ...

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to thin...

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

Caring a tree is caring of your soul.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So wh...

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, a...

In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the ...

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

The only shame is the sin.

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or e...

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his...

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life,...

in the most decent sometimes sun there is the softsmoke feeling from urns and the canned sound of ol...

Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want bu...

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can'...

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.