Life Philosophy Quotes

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.