Quotes by Philosophers - Page 376

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
Elbert Hubbard
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G.K. Chesterton
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
Meister Eckhart
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
Albert Camus
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.
John O'Donohue
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
Erich Fromm
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.
Albert Camus
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin