Life-philosophy Quotes

Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?

Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die ju...

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

It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is ho...

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot b...

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want ...

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their ...

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still

Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above ...

And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble...

You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to ...

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, my...

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions t...

I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as...

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and th...

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are...

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our...

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the exten...

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a ...

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advic...

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do t...

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live...

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever ha...

A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way w...

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a u...

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work...

I' was the last word I was able to speak aloud, which is a terrible thing, but there it is, I would ...

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s ...

Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. ...

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, y...

When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes...

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When ...

The first day of the rest of my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is about execution rather than purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pretty Stones

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

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

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

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

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

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

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

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

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