Quotes on Life Philosophy

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

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

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

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

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

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

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.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.