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Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy. — G-Eazy
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. — Hank Stram
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live. — Enya
That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment. — Pete Carroll
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. — Anthony Hopkins
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor. — Daniel Meyer
My mantra has become: Do what you love; love those you care about; give service to others; and know that you're on the right path. — Rich Roll
Short Life Philosophy Quotes
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. — Epictetus
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. — Lin Yutang
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree. — T. S. Eliot
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. — A.C. Grayling
Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places. — Jim Rohn
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. — Henry Ford
Top 10 Life Philosophy Quotes
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. — Albert Einstein
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. — Albert Schweitzer
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! — Frederic Chopin
Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life. — Helio Gracie
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. — Elsie De Wolfe
If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse. — George Carlin
Life Philosophy Image Quotes
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel. — Lil' Kim
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Good Life Philosophy Quotes
The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important. — Mark Manson
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops. — Charles Scott Sherrington
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice. — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. — Buddha
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life. — Randy Travis
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, and you don't have to wash up afterwards. — Molly Parkin
Meaning Of Life Philosophy Quotes
The answer to the meaning of life is because. You get to make up the answer and create your own meaning. — Naval Ravikant
To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe. — Truman G. Madsen
Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give. — Shakti Gawain
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so. — Daniel Handler
The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because it originates with man, can never find the answers. In fact, man cannot reach God or know God by intellectual pursuit. — Jimmy Swaggart
The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things. — Jim Rohn
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. — Yann Martel
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life. — Jesse Jackson
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20). — John Calvin
Work Life Philosophy Quotes
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved. — Masaaki Imai
While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important. — Zig Ziglar
I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit. — Branch Rickey
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote. — Jeannette Rankin
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. — Robin Williams
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. — Susan Griffin
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. — Karl Jaspers
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out — Ronald Reagan
Inspirational Life Philosophy Quotes
If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you. — Michael Beckwith
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov
The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules. — Ed Seykota
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. — Sheng-yen
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought — Laurence J. Peter
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. — Voltaire
Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future. — Paulo Coelho
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. — Robin Williams
To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain. — Paulo Coelho
Life Wisdom Quotes
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. — Queen Elizabeth II
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. — Immanuel Kant
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Attitude Towards Life Quotes
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones. — Roberta Bondar
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect – first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others. — William Ury
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. — J. Sidlow Baxter
A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life. — Anuj
Mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Buddha
Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along. — Will Durant
Life Motivation Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. — A. A. Milne
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
Life Perspective Quotes
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence. — Queen Elizabeth II
The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity. — Joan D. Chittister
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. — Oliver Sacks
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. — Lewis Grizzard
If you think life's too short, do something about it. — David Sinclair
Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way. — Mo Gawdat
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. — Socrates
Now is the best time to be alive. I'm grateful for this moment and for the entire history of life on Earth that led up to it. — Lex Fridman
Meaning Of Life Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. — Pablo Picasso
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect. — ASAP Rocky
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. — Joseph Campbell
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. — Saint Joseph
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh
My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko
Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal. — Rick Ross
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love. — Ramakrishna
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna
Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion. — K. Pattabhi Jois
In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. — Constantin Stanislavski
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude. — Rene Descartes
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos — Timothy Leary
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. — Confucius
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. — Frederic Chopin
Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you. — Marlon Brando
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me? — Annie Dillard
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. — Giacomo Leopardi
Expressing the matter, in such startling terms, makes it easy to see why philosophers from ancient Greece to the present have taken the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence. We’ve been granted the mental capacity to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, but practically no time at all to put them into action. — Oliver Burkeman
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. — Bryant H. McGill
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities. — Edward O. Thorp
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers. — Giorgio Armani
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. — J. B. Priestley
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. — Amby Burfoot
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. — Sophia Loren
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life. — Michael Faraday
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I’m doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It’s my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am. — Valentina Shevchenko
Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It’s not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way. — Edward O. Thorp
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. — Herman Hesse
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy
In Conclusion
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