Life Philosophy Quotes

Man is an end in himself.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

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

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.

Let your love be your guide. Let your courage be your driver, and let your passion be your road to enjoy this magnificent life to the fullest.

There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:

One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.

Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.

She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.

Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.

Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.

Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.

Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.

With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are.

Hope is full assurance of faith.

Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?

And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen.

These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.

If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.

From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.

Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.

O Lord that bear rule, even we all are full of impiety. And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.

Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?