Qoutes

Quotes About Famous Poets
Quotes tagged as "famous-poets"

This is what our love isa sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly
invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

Your pain is a school unto itself and your joy a lovely temple.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that
help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that
contextualize our lives.
Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a
Life Made Out of Poetry

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations
terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with
hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as
they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in
themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what
a freeing time it was.
Aberjhani, Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about
recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me
any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world
where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the
present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for
the future.
Aberjhani, Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes
Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or
flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of
beauty, wisdom and truth.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder,
when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive
politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in
darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet
producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century
teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the
unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his
work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its
soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that
they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose
poetry.
Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding
tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most
captivating of partners: poetry.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumis poetry inspires human hearts
to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in
the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I
greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the
throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of
attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was
therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future
emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.

Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows
somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying
Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland

Quotes tagged as "famous-quotes" (showing 1-30 of 41)

Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving
nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for
human souls.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if
you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation,
If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience would it
mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

This is what our love isa sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly
invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

History dressed up in the glow of loves kiss turned grief into beauty.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first
of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion cools your fears
with peace.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations
terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

In your hands winter
is a book with cloud pages
that snow pearls of love.

The job facing American voters in the days and years to come is to
determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited
to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation
as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a
legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions
based on unknowing fear.

Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.
Maxwell Anderson, Anne of the Thousand Days

I grew up once, I decided never to do it again
Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme

Think before you speak, unless it's urgent

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates
and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet
another.

Rather be true friend to one and known by none, than known by many but
have no true friends in any
Jaga

If you can't make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead
Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme

The important thing to remember is not to forget

Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It
comes and go. Whatever may come, it's better to enjoy the changing
seasons.
Happy Positivity

We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it
alone!
Mehmet Murat ildan

Vive deprisa, muere joven y deja un lindo cadver
Nick Romano

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding
tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most
captivating of partners: poetry.

A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To
remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
Mehmet Murat ildan

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself
(insert chuckle here).
Najeev Raj Nadarajah, Dream Caster

I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you
are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
Adel Abouhana

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them.
William Shakespeare

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison
us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have
their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his
acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a
walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good
night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to
heaven.
William Shakespeare
Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death
but once.
William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father,
both cry.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in
the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you
win.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of
the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his
intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's
weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words
without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the
cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good
of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a
perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship
divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered
to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living
faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mahatma Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of
conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of
beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal
members who can make a difference. They are the father, the
mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly
to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream
and work.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded
devotion to your goal.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities,
great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and
develop these powers.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better
tomorrow.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy
success.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow,
half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running
after swift but synthetic happiness.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of
Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry,
creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students
and become their role model.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to
question. Let the students ask questions.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is
very clear.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to
think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored
path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the
problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must
work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your
birthright to be a person.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary
education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at
that level.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and
they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to
me.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to
defeat us.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are
in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of
science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can
move over like the Japanese.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of
little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose
conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles
unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your
eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you
will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of
accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy
it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something
else.
Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been
learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see
when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent
brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the
hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not
enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must
do.
Leonardo da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the
imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of
art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open
your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is
not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it,
dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves,
every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every
other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

Success Life Idea
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about
what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel
far.
Swami Vivekananda

Wisdom Travel Care
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
Religion God Yourself
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none
can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own
soul.
Swami Vivekananda

Teacher Spiritual Soul
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who
have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda

Eyes Dark Universe
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value;
but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid
of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda
Money Help Others
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our
hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Swami Vivekananda

Good God Others
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to
his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the
ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda
Truth Struggle Idea
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every
human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every
human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from
bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
God Free Moment
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the
greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to
say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami Vivekananda
Greatest Others Soul
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make
ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
Strength Great Strong
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda

Secret Degree Oneness
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own
hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda
God Cannot Living
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If
you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them
go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda
Cannot Hand Hands
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one
can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
Truth True Ways
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed
into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda
Mind Idea State
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than
everything in this and next life.
Swami Vivekananda
Religion Life God
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and
practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and
miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda
Faith Sure Ourselves
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the
greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak,
that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have
no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
Power Cannot Greatest
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing
material.
Swami Vivekananda
Material Reached Disturbed
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and
effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda

Free Behind Cause
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda
Nature Large Internal
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
Swami Vivekananda
Word Divine Ideal
As different streams having different sources all mingle their
waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they
appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda

God Though Sea
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
Swami Vivekananda

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate
the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Life Future Mind

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
Inspirational Best Health
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Anger Holding Coal
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and
the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Inspirational Life Happiness
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never
leaves.
Buddha
Mind Thoughts Pure

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the
truth.
Buddha
Truth Cannot Three
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
Blood Tongue Drawing
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to
bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own
mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to
Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to
him.
Buddha

Parenting Happiness Wisdom
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who
is more deserving of your love and affection than you are
yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve
your love and affection.
Buddha
Love Yourself Universe
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
Words Read Speak
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We
ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
May Path Ourselves
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
Mind
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He
who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
Peace Mind Others
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to
truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
Truth Mistakes Road
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall
not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
Health Mind Strong
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by
angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
Yourself Cannot Win
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live
without a spiritual life.
Buddha
Religion Life Cannot
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of
life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
Death Life Wise
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the
eternal rule.
Buddha
Love Hatred Rule
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already
ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for
ourselves.
Buddha
Anger Truth Ourselves
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings
peace.
Buddha
Peace Words Word
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be
done.
Buddha
Remains
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by
your anger.
Buddha
Anger Punished
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
Thoughts Arises
It is a man's own mind

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success Failure Loss
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Motivational Keep Hell
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and
the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of
misery.
Winston Churchill

Failure Ignorance Philosophy

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Success Courage Failure
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for
something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

Life Enemy Means
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you
will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill

Morning May Drunk
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist Optimist Difficulty

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
Future Mind Empires
Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
Motivational
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a
chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Truth Lie Chance
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also
what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage Speak Takes
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute
conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Government Best Against
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance
may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
Truth May End
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to
persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Marriage Wife Able
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a
single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Great Freedom Simple
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to
unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Strength Effort Key
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we
give.
Winston Churchill
Brainy Life Living
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Attitude Difference
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after
they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
Tried Count
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
Change Often Perfect
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall
fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we
shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the
hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
War May Fight
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill
End Beginning Perhaps
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject.
Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of
blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of
miseries.
Winston Churchill
Blessings Socialism Virtue
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be
shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough
people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Aristotle 384-322 B.C.
Courtesy of translator Giles Laurn, author of The Stoic's Bible from Aristotle.
The Nichomean Ethics. W. D. Ross.
Every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and pursuit is thought
to aim at some good, and for this reason the good has been declared to be
that at which all things aim.
ARIST. Nico. I.1.
If there is some end in the things we do, which we desire for its own sake,
clearly this must be the chief good. Knowing this will have a great influence
on how we live our lives.
ARIST. Nico. I.2.
Politics appears to be the master art for it includes so many others and its
purpose is the good of man. While it is worthy to perfect one man, it is finer
and more godlike to perfect a nation.
ARIST. Nico. I.2.
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of thing
in so far as its nature admits.
ARIST. Nico. I.3.
Each man judges well the things he knows.
ARIST. Nico. I.3.
Men generally agree that the highest good attainable by action is happiness,
and identify living well and doing well with happiness.
ARIST. Nico. I.4.
There are three prominent types of life: pleasure, political and contemplative.
The mass of mankind is slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to
beasts; they have some ground for this view since they are imitating many of
those in high places. People of superior refinement identify happiness with
honour, or virtue, and generally the political life.
ARIST. Nico. I.5.
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion since wealth
is not the good we are seeking and is merely useful for the sake of
something else.
ARIST. Nico. I.5.
Our duty as philosophers requires us to honour truth above our friends.
ARIST. Nico. I.6.
If things are good in themselves, the good will appear as something identical
in them all, but the accounts of the goodness in honour, wisdom, and
pleasure are diverse. The good therefore is not some common element
answering to one Idea.
ARIST. Nico. I.6.
Even if there be one good which is universally predictable or is capable of
independent existence, it could not be attained by man.
ARIST. Nico. I.7.
If there is an end for all we do, it will be the good achievable by action.
ARIST. Nico. I.7.
The self-sufficient we define as that which when isolated makes life desirable
and complete, and such we think happiness to be. It cannot be exceeded and
is therefore the end of action.
ARIST. Nico. I.7.
If we consider the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be
an activity of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good
man to be the noble performance of these, and if any action is well
performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate principle;
if this is the case, human good turns out to be activity of the soul in
accordance with virtue.
ARIST. Nico. I.7.
We must first roughly sketch the good and later fill in the details; anyone is
capable of articulating what has once been well outlined. The beginning is
thought to be more than half of the whole.
ARIST. Nico. I.7.
Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with
a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and yet
others include prosperity. We agree with those who identify happiness with
virtue, for virtue belongs with virtuous behaviour and virtue is only known by
its acts.
ARIST. Nico. I.8.
Lovers of what is noble find pleasant the things that are by nature pleasant;
since virtue is by nature pleasant, they by virtuous actions find their
pleasures within themselves.
ARIST. Nico. I.8.
The man who does not rejoice in noble actions is not good; the good man
judges well in matters of the good and the noble.
ARIST. Nico. I.8.
Most noble is that which is most just, best is health; Most pleasant is to win
what we love. Delphic Inscription.
ARIST. Nico. I.8.
Is happiness to be acquired by learning, by habit, or some other form of
training? It seems to come as a result of virtue and some process of learning
and to be among the godlike things since its end is godlike and blessed.
ARIST. Nico. I.9.
All who are able, may gain virtue by study and care, for it is better to be
happy by the action of nature than by chance. To entrust to chance what is
most important would be defective reasoning.
ARIST. Nico. I.9.
Political science spends most of its pains on forming its citizens to be of good
character and capable of noble acts.
ARIST. Nico. I.9.
Durable virtue will belong to the happy man, and he will be happy
throughout his life, for he will always opt for virtuous acts and thoughts and
he will bear the hazards of life with nobility and live beyond reproach.
ARIST. Nico. I.10.
No happy man can become miserable, for he will never do acts that are
hateful and mean.
ARIST. Nico. I.10.
Should we not say that he is happy whose acts are virtuous and has
adequate external goods for his lifetime?
ARIST. Nico. I.10.
No one praises happiness as he does justice, but rather calls it blessed, as
being something more divine and better. Praise is appropriate to virtue,
because as a result of virtue men tend to do noble deeds.

William Wordsworth quotes (showing 1-30 of 140)
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts
of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
2403 likes
like
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
751 likes
like
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
596 likes
like
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...
William Wordsworth
tags: glory, hope, poetry, strength
481 likes
like
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
tags: daffodils, peace, poetry, serenity
343 likes
like
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from
emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
tags: poetry
162 likes
like
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth

Rest and be thankful.
William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to
add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing
them.
Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive
it.
Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I
acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one
door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will
come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth
that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the
dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but
makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for
the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has
great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a
perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the
water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the
tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time
enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in
the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the
flower.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people
who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything
about it.
Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The
important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has
its limits.
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply
not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a
man of value.
Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used
when we created them.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the
others crazy?
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot
be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to
play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well
enough.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems
longer.
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness
that created it.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything
better.
Albert Einstein

What we really are matters more than what other people think of
us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind
brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the
absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can
come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and
adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if
only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and
principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is
determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one
does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end
itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not
perhaps be entirely with us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about
things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape
the consequences of what we say.
Jawaharlal Nehru

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts
subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make
the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Jawaharlal Nehru

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of
portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting
on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to
ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this
advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Quotes tagged as "philosophy-of-life"

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-
life, psychological
8928 likes
like

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.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
1985 likes
like

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
Dale Renton
tags: philosophy-of-life, relationships
313 likes
like

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C.S. Lewis
tags: philosophy-of-life
310 likes
like

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive
spitting it back out.
Carroll Bryant
tags: humor, life-and-living, life-lessons, philisophical, philosophy-of-life
193 likes
like

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected
return. If things dont go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely
difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure
teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will
want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book.
Some IITians kill themselves over low grades how silly is that? But that is
how much failure can hurt you. But its life. If challenges could always be
overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember if you are
failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And thats
where you want to be.
Disappointment s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been
frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in
India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take
so long that you dont know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the
goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called
extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration
saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making
you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time
involved movies take a long time to make even though they are watched
quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result
at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan I had my third
book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your
life friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to
be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.
Chetan Bhagat
tags: disappointment, philosophy-of-life, spark
184 likes
like

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise
themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
173 likes
like

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is
always winging it.
Carroll Bryant
tags: life-and-death, life-and-living, philosophical, philosophy-of-
life, spontaneity
139 likes
like

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time,
and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
102 likes
like

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you
start to become worse than what you already are.
Carroll Bryant
tags: philisophical, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, philosophy-of-people
102 likes
like

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
Albert Camus
100 likes
like

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and
in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the
principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind
of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-
improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are
careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day
after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making
no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and
make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever
you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly
regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games,
you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by
a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by
attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you,
although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants
to be a Socrates.
Epictetus
86 likes
like

Human evolution has two steps -
from being somebody to being nobody;
and from being nobody to being everybody.
This knowledge can bring
sharing and caring throughout the world.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
tags: advice, philosophy-of-life
81 likes
like

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion
of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life,
which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally
satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells
me is so.
Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir
tags: atheism, philosophy-of-life, religion
77 likes
like

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for
twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down
and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller
73 likes
like

The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.
Carroll Bryant
tags: dreams, dreams-inspirational, philosophical, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
71 likes
like

All is fair in love and war
Sun Tzu
tags: art-of-war, love, love-and-war, philosophy-of-life
69 likes
like

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what youwant
to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
E. Lockhart, The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus
Techniques for Taming Them
tags: life, philosophy-of-life
61 likes
like

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows
what it will be.
Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night A Traveler
tags: books, philosophy-of-life, reading
53 likes
like

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try
to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do
it for you.
E. Lockhart, The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus
Techniques for Taming Them
tags: arguments, philosophy-of-life
52 likes
like

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few
seconds to die.
Jostein Gaarder, Maya
50 likes
like

Dac omul va uita cu desvrire c exist moarte, c exist un sfrit, riscm
s ne ntoarcem la maimue. Explicaia este simpl: omul activ, omul creator,
este excitat mai ales de ideea c ntr-o zi se va termina totul, c va avea un
sfrit, o odihn definitiv. Cultiv la maximum contiina acestui sfrit, i vei
obine de la oameni cele mai extraordinare eforturi. Cine tie
asta incontinuu este n stare s ridice munii, este n stare de cele mai crncene
liberti, de cele mai curajoase acte.
Mircea Eliade, Huliganii
50 likes
like

Life is a constant process of dying.
Arthur Schopenhauer
47 likes
like

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
Carroll Bryant
tags: philosophical, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, thinkers, thinking
42 likes
like

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The
alternative isn't any more appealing.
Carroll Bryant
tags: philisophical, philosophy-of-life, philosphy, philsophical-thought
35 likes
like

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
tags: mahmoud-darwish, philosophy-of-life, poetry-quotes
33 likes
like

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully
your hairdo.
Minton Sparks
tags: humor, philosophy-of-life, poet, storyteller
26 likes
like

No matter where you go, there you are.
Keith Caserta
tags: humor, philosophy-of-life
25 likes
like

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one
would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
24 likes
like

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.

I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky.
Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.

Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die
someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
tags: choices, dying, philosophy-of-life
20 likes
like

Quotes tagged as "philosophy-of-life" (showing 31-60 of 427)
I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I
can just be myself.
Cory Monteith
tags: cory-monteith, life, philosophy-of-life, truthful
53 likes
like

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter
least.
Goethe
50 likes
like

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world
I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure,
honest fun.
Criss Jami
tags: blunt, bluntness, building, building-
up, care, caring, clever, considerate, consideration,construction, destroying, des
truction, emotion, emotional-impulse, fun, funny, funny-but-
true, havoc,helping-
others, honest, honesty, humor, impulse, life, love, meaning, meaning-of-
life, morality,philosophy, philosophy-of-
life, pure, purpose, rhetoric, rhetorical, right, right-and-wrong, right-and-
wrong-in-philosophy, righteousness, sarcasm, sarcastic, sarcastic-humor, self-
control, stand-out,standing-out, true, truth, truth-telling, witty, wrong
46 likes
like

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but
never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.
We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names.
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and
rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead
levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art
and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we
forget.
G.K. Chesterton
tags: orthodoxy, philosophy-of-life, theology
42 likes
like

It comes from within.
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons
in Personal Change
41 likes
like

All I know is that I do not know anything
Socrates
30 likes
like

Dear little Swallow, said the Prince, you tell me of marvelous things, but more
marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no
Mystery so great as Misery.
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
29 likes
like

Best way to get rid of pain is to have
some more of it....you will feel better!!
rahul
tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, time, trust, truth, wisdom
27 likes
like

One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.
Angela Lam Turpin

Dont be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole
philosophy in a sentence.
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament
or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
E.A. Bucchianeri

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people
Ben Thompson

It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for
discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over the years.
You don't even notice it creeping in. It happens, trickle by trickle.
You do not realise when or how the easy familiarity gets replaced by a 'taken-
for-granted' attitude over the years. By the time you do, it is often late. Habits
have been formed, patterns have been set. And a comfort-zone have been
established.

A zone that is hard to get out of.
Preeti Shenoy, The Secret Wish List

Izzi: Remember Moses Morales?
Tom Verde: Who?
Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about.
Tom Verde: From your trip.
Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father, who had
died. Well Moses wouldn't believe it.
Tom Verde: Izzi...
Izzi: [embraces Tom] No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's
body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed
became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into
the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father
flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what
he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter
and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
Tom Verde: Why are you telling me this?
Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy.
Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If
there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make
matter more?
Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the
Search for God

As to the roaming of sages,
They move in utter emptiness,
Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;
They run beyond convention
And go through where there is no gateway.
They listen to the soundless
And look at the formless,
They are not constrained by society
And not bound to its customs.
- Lao-tzu
Laozi
16 likes
like

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.
Stphane Mallarm
tags: book, life, philosophy-of-life, world
13 likes
like

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the
way of the universe.
Marianne Curley, The Key

Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I
understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right
words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you.
Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart.
Carroll Bryant, Children Of The Flower Power

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can
find them in the dark.
Kelli Jae Baeli, Immortality or Something Like It

... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the
waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere
at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the
past, not the shadow of the future.
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

All the steeps we make in life they count with time,and it doesn't matter which
steep you have made in life ,wether a steep forward or a steep
backward,because they are all steeps towards the grave.
Jean .D. Habimana

There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.
Dexter Morgan

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to
the world as children.
Kelli Jae Baeli, Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God
Cosmology

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each.
It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted
and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.
Kelli Jae Baeli, Too Much World
tags: coping-skill, insane, insanity, philosophy-of-life, sane, sanity
7 likes
like

After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.
Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
6 likes
like

Those masks we wear
not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are.
6 likes
like

Duty were our games.
William Wordsworth, The Prelude

Quotes About Philosophy Of Life

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his
thinking.
Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
tags: law-of-attraction, philosophy-of-life
34 likes
like

Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though
we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own
reflection.
Katina Ferguson
tags: epiphany, inspirational, philosophy-of-life
23 likes
like

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms
our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller
20 likes
like

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
19 likes
like

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt
Hilda
Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift

It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem
from that truth.
J.K. Miller II, Reborn

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.
Christopher Krovatin, Heavy Metal And You

If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never
be filled.
James D. Maxon

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward
and a slave
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
11 likes
like

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the
word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven
emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man
does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I
might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my
descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.
Tokugawa Iehiro
tags: inspirational, philosophy-of-life
11 likes
like

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought
of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form
of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for
mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under
the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his
prey.
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
tags: pessimism, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
11 likes
like

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good
in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or
impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

To be, or not to be: what a question!
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World: Volume I
tags: existence, faust, funny, humor, marlowe, philosophical-
humor, philosophy, philosophy-of-life,questions, questions-and-
answers, questions-in-life, shakespeare, to-be-or-not-to-be
9 likes
like

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even
the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of
themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
John le Carr, The Honourable Schoolboy

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and
lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and
was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of
mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and
uneasinesses either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living,
luxury, and extravagances on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries,
and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon
themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle
station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments;
that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that
temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions,
and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of
life...
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Don't make me come down there.
- God
Keith Caserta, Soul Searching

In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way
globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself
in the created spirit. The eye that surveys the universe is the universe's own
eye.
Jostein Gaarder, Maya

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained
shape long at a time.
Mark Twain

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,
be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead."
Sensibility is the definition of
life.
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour
and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a
splurge.'

It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation
would have just one question: Define splurge.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of
comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been
different in our own society that the way we live is only one among
innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways
and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many
possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive
technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long.
Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the
history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (..)
Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of
life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life
meaningful.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to
Social and Cultural Anthropology

Io avevo bisogno di ammirare innanzi di amare.
Sibilla Aleramo, A Woman

There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we
ignore it.

These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous
accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that
nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your
stupidity.
Kelli Jae Baeli, Immortality or Something Like It
tags: danger, fear, philosophy-of-life, stupidity, thrill-seekers
2 likes
like

LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP
BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY
SOUL.
tags: love, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.
Daven Anderson


When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.
Henry Miller
26 likes
like

. .
. . .
! , ,
. : ,
,
- : !
Blaga Dimitrova,
tags: philosophy-of-life, women
18 likes
like

The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes,
and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.
Ilyas Kassam
tags: kassam, love, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
8 likes
like

Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let's
make the most of today.
Robert Ashby
tags: philosophy-of-life, reflection, time
6 likes
like

It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance,
that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you
wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made
you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
Daniel Kehlmann
5 likes
like

The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time.
Everything else is just a sub-category.
Stephen R. Bown
tags: inspirational, philosophy-of-life, time
5 likes
like

Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They
know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to
survive does not make for cowardice.
Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation
Sonia Rumzi
tags: inspirational, philosophy-of-life, simple-conversation
4 likes
like

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these,
residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape
over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer
with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves
away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for
her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the
proper style.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
tags: philosophy-of-life, reality-check, sex, sex-advice, truth
4 likes
like

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the
confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?
Aysha Taryam, The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
tags: animal, culture, humanity-and-society, philosophical-musings, philosophy-
of-life
3 likes
like

Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is
rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western
people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience
many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and
second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot,
just as they are in the West.
Daniel Quinn
tags: buddhism, economy, my-ishmael, philosophy-of-life
3 likes
like

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a
distinction without a difference.
Gary Inbinder
tags: irony-of-life, philosophy-of-life
3 likes
like

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty
of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to
fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the
world?
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
tags: art, artists, artsy, being-
practical, cooking, creativity, food, funny, humor, humour, keep-your-feet-on-
the-ground, meat, oven, philosophical, philosophy, philosophy-of-
life, practicality
3 likes
like

I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within.
Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words
begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers on
a new path to find. So for now I'll continue to drop ink and not worry about
what other people think.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, poetry, reading
3 likes
like

From the managerial perspective, Sir Oliver Humperdink, a heinous sort for
most of his career, said the release of pentup emotions might even have been
healthy for mind and soul. "As heels, we were able to be as annoying and
politically incorrect as possible.We were able to say and do what everyone
probably wanted to say and do, but, for one reason or another, could never,
ever get away with. And, by being able to do so, I generally found that my
fellow heels were much more 'easygoing' than our babyface counterparts who
had to 'toe the line.
Greg Oliver, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels
tags: philosophy-of-life, wrestling
2 likes
like

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which
does the relating.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
2 likes
like

I miei gridi erano ben atroci, poich le riviste che prima mi sollecitavano, ora
mi respingono; ma la giustizia non pu venire soffocata perch arde. Io non
domando fama, io domando ascolto.
2 likes
like

The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.
Judah Freed, GLOBAL SENSE
tags: ecology, environment, global, occupy-wall-street, philosophy, philosophy-
of-life, politics
2 likes
like

Il mio allontanamento dai volumi di scienza era una colpa assai meno grave di
quella che consisteva nell'aver trascurato di gettar gli occhi sul grande libro
della vita.
2 likes
like

.
Marcel Pagnol
2 likes
like

, . .
. .
Erich Maria Remarque
tags: philosophical, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

We are doomed to perdition each time life does not reveal itself as a miracle,
each time the moment no longer moans in a supernatural shudder. How renew
that sensation of plenitude, those seconds of delirium, those volcanic flashes,
those wonders of fervor which reduce God to an accident of our clay?
E.M. Ciroran
1 likes
like

And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any
other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other
work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?"

What is good, Phdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us
these things?
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into
Values
1 likes
like

...
Jacques Rigaut
tags: philosophy-of-life, --
1 likes
like

Why dont we just say it already? He smirked. I mean come on now.
I eyed him carefully not knowing where to step. What is it you think we want
to say?
That we love each other. I kick myself every time I stopped myself from
saying it. And I know you love me and thats all that matters, he said, pulling
me close instead of away this time. We stared at the water in a shared silence.
My mind wished I could say the same thing, but knowing if I wanted to was the
problem. Did I even know how?
Holly Hood, Heart of Gypsies
tags: life-changing, love, philosophy-of-life
1 likes
like

Life is a dream from which there is but one awakening.
Jack Sanger, Azimuth: The Second Journey
1 likes
like

Some way some how i'm going to be happy i'm going to laugh i'm going to
prosper,i feel good that i remain positive thru these mess up times!!!
jojo1980
tags: hope, inspirational, life, life-and-living, philosophy, philosophy-of-
life, truth
1 likes
like

It's always better to be kind than right.
Ricardo Chvere
1 likes
like

The world is like a giant Alcoholic whining day to day about what others are
doing. Instead of of living harmoniously and individually for Good Orderly
Direction. If we have faith in our God, than why should we care how others are
living their lives?
B.L. Kennison
1 likes
like

Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we
reel backwards ten times fold. I don't even think on the Precipice of Change will
we truly move forward... It will most definitely take a Miracle.
Solange nicole

Life was a bloody battlefield until I conquered the enemy and won the war.
Now, life is a journey, and I am a warrior. Prepared for anything and weakened
by nothing. There are hills and dales, mountains and plateaus, blind spots and
brilliant vistas, but none of that matters. All that matters is my second chance,
and the only thing capable of disrupting my path, is myself.
B.G. Bowers, Death and Life
tags: death, experience, learning-from-mistakes, life, personal-
development, personal-journey,philosophy-of-life, second-
chance, success, trials, tribulations, victims, warrior
5 likes
like

...it pointed to an alternative approach, a negative path to happiness, that
entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us
spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty,
embracing insecurity, stopping trying to think positively, becoming familiar with
failure, even learning to value death. In short, all these people seemed to agree
that in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to
experience more negative emotionsor, at the very least to learn to stop
running quite so hard from them.
Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand
Positive Thinking
tags: eudaimonia, happiness, philosophy-of-life, psychology
2 likes
like

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to
start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel
motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard
your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as
passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't
something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can
coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway.
Positive Thinking
tags: buddhism, motivation, philosophy-of-life, positive-
thinking, procrastination, psychology, work
2 likes
like

If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things
happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth
about everything.
A.E. Coppard, Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.
J.P. Donleavy

Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.
Dale Renton

Todos nosotros somos seres imperfectos que vivimos en un mundo
imperfecto.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

I've been wondering about this free will shit. Why we still keep doing the
same dance long after we've figured out its not fun anymore. So, we keep
shuffing our feet, dancing that dance over and over again. And we keep getting
the same result. It ain't the tune - we know that. It's just real hard to admit
that when the music stops ... Its all on us.
The Cleaner
1 likes
like

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they
show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I
was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in
comparison.
Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for
heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting
emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And
then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what
that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots
of small joys and pleasures, huh?
Franois Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on
which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues, dismantles
Winters brittle leaves, and ushers Spring into our fertile environments. Seeds
of evolution burst from their pod cocoons and teardrop buds blossom into
Summer flowers. Change releases its redolent scent, attracting the buzz of
honey bees and the adoration of discerning butterflies.
B.G. Bowers, Death and Life

Things don't just happen the way they happen for your its own Creator,Mentor
and Destroyer
Abhishek Sundarraman

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must
rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our
legend.
Palle Oswald
tags: inspirational-quotes, life-and-death, philosophy-of-life, philosophy-of-
religion
0 likes
like

But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those
situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously
strengthening your belief that you need to feel motivated before you act. By
encouraging an attachment to a particular emotional state, it actually inserts an
additional hurdle between you and your goal. The subtext is that if you can't
make yourself feel excited and pleased about getting down to work, then you
can't get down to work.
Positive Thinking
tags: buddhism, happiness, philosophy-of-life, psychology
0 likes
like

Me And Ocean -- Two Deep Dreams Of God
Prince
tags: attitude-toward-life, cool, love, philosophy-of-life
0 likes
like

Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana
Alejandro C. Estrada
0 likes
like

Dont worry, he said, that grandfatherly smile spreading across his face once
more, Ive been fishing for over forty years. Youve got plenty of time to catch
up, maybe even pass what Ive done. Youre a perspicacious piscatorial
pursuer, and Im sure youll catch the big ones.
S. Bradley Stoner, Fishing and Other Misadventures
tags: fishing, humor, philosophy-of-life
0 likes
like

Each second melts like ice.
Each second cloats like blood.
Dr. Prathap Kamath from Ekalavya
tags: philosophy-of-life, time
0 likes
like

Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.
K Hari Kumar
tags: destiny, determinent, determinism, hardwork, k-hari-
kumar, luck, motivation, philosophy,philosophy-of-life, struggle, success
0 likes
like

Nada disso tem a ver com moralidade, religio, dogmas ou grandes questes
sobre a vida aps a morte. A verdade com V maisculo diz respeito vida
antes da morte. Diz respeito a chegar aos trinta, ou quem sabe aos cinquenta,
sem querer dar um tiro na cabea. Diz respeito ao valor real de uma verdadeira
educao, que no tem nada a ver com notas e diplomas e tudo a ver com
simples conscincia - conscincia daquilo que to real e essencial, que est
to escondido luz do dia onde quer que se olhe que precisamos repetir para
ns mesmos a todo momento: "Isto gua, isto gua; esses esquims
podem ser bem mais do que aparentam". incrivelmente difcil fazer isso, ter
uma vida consciente e adulta, dia aps dia. E com isso mais um clich se prova
verdadeiro: a nossa educao leva mesmo a vida toda, e ela comea: agora.

Desejo a vocs muito mais que sorte.
David Foster Wallace, Ficando longe do fato de j estar meio que longe de
tudo
tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-life, speech
0 likes
like

He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone
for a toss.
Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
tags: appearance, philosophy-of-life, reality
0 likes
like

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you
rassool jibraeel snyman

Maybe the question isn't whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like
God doesn't exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn't. But if we act
like God does exist, then in essence, She does.
Chris Hollenback, Sleep When You're Dead

progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we
want them to
Phil Hogan, A Pleasure and a Calling

If I were a bean,... I wouldn't sulk all day long.
Edna Stewart, Carpe Diem

never trust your life in the hands of a murderer
Omar Hickman

Do as you would be done by
Anonymous I think

.
, , !
C. Massios
tags: hate, love, philosophy-of-life
0 likes
like

,
. .
. . ,
, .
. . ,
: ?

tags: humor, philosophy-of-life
0 likes
like

The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain
wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching
your tent in the middle.
Zephyr McIntyre


Reality - Dreams = Animal Being
Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)
Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)
Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism
Dreams + Humor = Fantasy
Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Lin Yutang, The Importance Of Living
12 likes
like

! ...

tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-life
8 likes
like

tags: philosophy-of-life, policy, revolutions
7 likes
like

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.
David Gerrold

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 dont find
under most other circumstances.
A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
tags: communication, connectedness, connecting, connecting-with-
people, philosophy-of-life
5 likes
like

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death
and telling it, Not today.
Molly Ringle, Persephone's Orchard
tags: death, life, philosophy-of-life, survival
5 likes
like

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the
longer the list.
Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et penses : Caractres et anecdotes
tags: humans, philosophy-of-life, reflections
4 likes
like

praise does not make anything better or worse.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-life, philosophy-of-people, praise
4 likes
like

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with
the highest respect and care.
Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
tags: creation, nature, philosophy-of-life
4 likes
like

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
tags: life-quotes, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, quotes-on-life
4 likes
like

Don`t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want
Mahmoud Reda

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a
citizen, as a mortal creature.
tags: morality-without-religion, philosophy, philosophy-of-life

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream
until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
The Ek
tags: attitude, classics, lies, philosophical, philosophy, philosophy-of-
life, thinking, truth

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.
Jacques Tardi, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adle Blanc-Sec: Pterror
Over Paris / The Eiffel Tower Demon
tags: exciting, french, interesting, life, life-lesson, life-lessons, life-
philosophy, lost, philosophy,philosophy-of-life, struggle

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we cant sow lies and reap truth.
Katina Ferguson
tags: philosophy-of-life, principles
3 likes
like

As human beings, our first commandment is:
Something needs to happen
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
3 likes
like

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
tags: fear, philosophy-of-life, purpose
3 likes
like

When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.
Helen O'Reilly
2 likes
like

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, Orthodoxy
tags: humor, philosophy-of-life, science

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, Ghana Must Go
tags: africa, childbirth, fragility, ghana, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

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, Common Sense Renewed
tags: deity, humanistic, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

The elements of life do not segregate themselves, unless they are human.
Zephyr A. McIntyre
1 likes
like

Frustration is your belief that things should be different than they are. So,
when frustrated, ask yourself 'what should be different?'. In the end, you will
find things are the way they are, as a result of your choices. Accept
responsibility and start making different choices. Your life will be more peaceful
as a result.
L.R.W. Lee
tags: inspirational-life, philosophy-of-life, self-improvement
1 likes
like

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, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
tags: mastery-of-oneself, philosophy-of-life, zen
1 likes
like

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. Its difficult to hate an idea.
Its much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame
for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesnt have to be an
individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group anything.
Carlos Ruiz Zafn, The Angel's Game
1 likes
like

I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than
common !!
jojo1980
tags: life, philosophy-of-life, special, thinking, wisdom
1 likes
like

The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.
Michael Dwinnell


Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your hearts desire; the other
is to get it.
Socrates
tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, relationships
67 likes
like

What are you doing here, anyway?"
"'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our
purpose here on
this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's
a greater metaethical
purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological
reductionism is
clearly a fallacious argument, but"
"I'm going back to bed." Clary reached for the doorknob.
He slid nimbly between her and the door. "I'm here," he said, "because Hodge
reminded me
it was your birthday.
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: jace-and-clary, jace-wayland, ontology, philosophy-of-life, sarcasm
63 likes
like

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
Plato, The Republic
tags: immortality, philosophy-of-life, soul
43 likes
like

Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz?
Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the
great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a
mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she
shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the
world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this
seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world
today?
Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin
tags: fool, philosophy-of-life
25 likes
like

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be
wise.
tags: busy, chinese-philosopher, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, wise
21 likes
like

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
tags: philosophy-of-life, wisdon
19 likes
like

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close
by and safely.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
tags: life, life-of-pi, philosophy-of-life
18 likes
like

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were
dead before we honored their spirit.
Kellie Elmore
tags: death, inspiration, life, life-and-living, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
17 likes
like

There are three conditions which often look alike
Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:
Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment
From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them,
indifference, ... .
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
14 likes
like

YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think
otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are
meant to be puzzling.
Kaiden Blake
tags: dreams, inspiration, inspirational-quotes, life, life-
lessons, philosophy, philosophy-of-life,spiritual-growth, spiritual-
quotes, spirituality-of-imperfection
11 likes
like

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle
10 likes
like

You're too young to decide to live forever.
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
tags: inspirational, philosophy-of-life
8 likes
like

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, roman, spirituality
7 likes
like

To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Sarojini Naidu
tags: dreams, needs, philosophy-of-life
6 likes
like

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much
Blaise Pascal
5 likes
like

The May sunshine makes both the trolls and the elves disappear, he thought.
They burst like soap bubbles. Only human beings remain, for a little while. We
are a brief song beneath the sky, laughter in the wind that ends in a sigh. Then
we too are gone.
Johan Theorin, Blodlge
5 likes
like

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.
Carroll Bryant
tags: interesting-thought, philosophical, philosophy-of-life, philosphy-of-people
5 likes
like

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J Kaiser
4 likes
like

Be quick, be quiet, and be on time.
Clarence L "Kelly" Johnson
3 likes
like

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
tags: chinese-philosopher, digestion, happiness, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
3 likes
like

The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate
weapon displays a cavalier attitude toward death that has always puzzled me.
My impression is that...most of the defenders of these weapons are not suitably
horrified at the possibility of a war in which hundreds of millions of people
would be killed...I suspect that an important factor may be belief in an afterlife,
and that the proporttion of those who think that death is not the end is much
higher among the partisans of the bomb than among its opponents.
Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere
2 likes
like

When you're already going through a rough patch of life; a slight wave from
past thrash you down so gracefully that journey bcms an unending shore !
Monika Arora mona
tags: hard-times, journey-in-life, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize
your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old...
Gaetano De Coubertin
1 likes
like

Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.
Carroll Bryant
tags: philosophical, philosophy-of-life
1 likes
like

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the
centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a
pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.
Hkan Nesser, Der unglckliche Mrder.


But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
tags: irony-of-life, philosophy-of-life
55 likes
like

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
tags: courage, encouragement, famous-poets, famous-
quotes, fear, inspiration, knowledge-of-self,meditation, personal-
identity, personality, philosophy-of-life, positive-motivation, self-
acceptance, self-knowledge, wisdom-in-youth, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-
quote
24 likes
like

Were beings toward death, were two-legged, linguistically-conscious
creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the
culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
Cornel West
tags: death, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
16 likes
like

Humayun Ahmed,
11 likes
like

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody
else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the
rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at
best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't
follow you home and park your car.
Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
9 likes
like

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to
poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the
modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of
an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular
area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?
Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an
individual's morals ?
Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
9 likes
like

To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing
to have an open mind, and willing to take action!
Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
tags: inspirational-quotes, philosophy-of-life, positive-attitude
8 likes
like

You are the one and only solution for your problem.
Shailesh Bhokare
tags: inspirational-quotes, philosophy-of-life
8 likes
like

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like
it's your last.
Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
tags: live-in-the-moment, momento-mori, philosophy-of-life
7 likes
like

Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the
large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
Vikram Roy
tags: city-life, modern-life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
7 likes
like

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
tags: inspirational-quote, philosophy-of-life, self-help-book
6 likes
like

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that
great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled
up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's
legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach
the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best
posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows
at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind
the back of one's head.
tags: bed, chinese-philosopher, confucius, happiness, philosophy, philosophy-
of-life, sleeping
5 likes
like

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't
believe in myself because my thought is invented.
Clarice Lispector, The Stream Of Life
tags: cheating, life, philosophy-of-life, thought, thoughts-on-life
5 likes
like

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy.
That is all there is to it.
tags: chinese-philosopher, happiness, philosophy-of-life
5 likes
like

Nothing is more difficult than removing a negative attitude.
Shailesh Bhokare
tags: funny, inspirational-quotes, philosophy-of-life
4 likes
like

Find your truth, live your truth.
J. T. OWENS

Freedom is your birthright!
tags: inspirational-quote, philosophy-of-life, self-help-book

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
John Dewey, Experience and Nature
tags: communication, experience, nature, philosophy-of-life

My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every
year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view,
the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.
Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I
am a robot!
Vikram Roy
tags: city-life, modern-life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life

Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull
back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics,
human expression and the human experience are universal. It is the greatness
of this experience that connects us together by infinite invisible threads strewn
across the globe. This is my responsibility, passion and desire as an artistmy
soul purpose.
Brian Bowers, Shadows Chasing Light
tags: human-condition, human-nature, humanity, longing, love, philosophy-of-
life, poetic-narrative,poetry, romance, spiritual, spirituality

Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and
lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or
sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.
Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
tags: energy-healing, inspirational-life, life-lessons, philosophy-of-life, red

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at
the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if
often unexpectedly, resemble.
Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
tags: life-lessons, literature, philosophy-of-life

When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He
whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest
alteration in anything, he may destroy the future. At the same time, he is
forced to witness events without being part of them, without changing them.
He envies the people who live in their own time, who can act at will, oblivious
of the future, ignorant of the effects of their actions. But he cannot act. He is
an inert gas, a ghost, a sheet without soul. He has lost his personhood. He is
an exile of time.
Alan Lightman
tags: philosophy-of-life, time
2 likes
like

But life does not consist of words.
Life consists of reality.
Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson
tags: life, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

Always do the best that you can, do not do to do just enough to get by.
Shailesh Bhokare
tags: inspirational-quotes, philosophy-of-life
2 likes
like

If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have
a set of beliefs and a lifestyle that adheres to this lack of belief? NO, IT ONLY
IMPLIES that I do not believe in faeries, elves and trolls. So one cannot
extrapolate morality, philosophy, cosmology, character, political party, or any
other thing of that sort from the mere lack of belief in one other thing.
Kelli Jae Baeli, Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God
Cosmology
tags: belief, myth, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
1 likes
like

Wenn man einmal das Bse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht
mehr, da man ihm glaube.
Franz Kafka, The Zrau Aphorisms
tags: german, good-and-evil, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
1 likes
like

Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon
gegeben.
Franz Kafka, The Zrau Aphorisms
tags: german, good-and-evil, philosophy, philosophy-of-life
1 likes
like

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion
and self-interested action?
Adi Shankaracarya

Qoutes

Diunggah oleh

Informasi Dokumen

Hak Cipta

Format Tersedia

Bagikan dokumen Ini

Bagikan atau Tanam Dokumen

Opsi Berbagi

Apakah menurut Anda dokumen ini bermanfaat?

Apakah konten ini tidak pantas?

Hak Cipta:

Format Tersedia

Qoutes

Diunggah oleh

Hak Cipta:

Format Tersedia

Quotes About Famous Poets

Quotes tagged as "famous-poets"

Anda mungkin juga menyukai