Life Philosophy Quotes - Page 2

Some people would rather be right that happy, I choose to be happy".

Catie Hartsfield

Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for... Be a "game changer"....The basic tenets of my life philosophy.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

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

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring.

Haruki Murakami

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don't know that and who can't forget, and for whom such knowledge isn't a cornerstone of life.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.

One can overcome fear by acknowledging it and then choosing not to heed it." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

The luckiest people are the hardest working people." - L. R. W. Lee

Most times problems are not solved with more money. It usually takes innovation." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.

Life is filled with all goods and bads around each one of us,It's our rights to choose the path and we are responsible of all our deeds and consequences.

Success comes from a thousand little things done well, rarely from a silver bullet, even though we'd all like to believe that as our actions betray." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Drink from the fountain of youth and cloak yourself in the garments of wisdom.

To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.

Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

Henry B. Eyring

Never cry for the same reason twice.

Stephen Richards

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.André Chevalier

Nikki Sex

Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing.André Chevalier

Nikki Sex

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.

As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.

He who lives in the hearts of others never dies! Truly impacting and empowering people where you make a huge difference.

Samuel Nazer Walsh

The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open.

A. Mani

Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.

Vikram Adhikari

Live Loud, Love Loud, Laugh Loud, Play Loud, Cry Loud – Isn’t that what life’s about!

Samuel Nazer Walsh

I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.

Grégoire Delacourt

Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality.

I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.

He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or some slowly developing suburb— to be alone and carefully build a life in which he might be able to begin, at some point, to think about what to do about himself.

Tao Lin

Here's what I think...There is no unfucked up. People think there is, but there's not. We're all fucked up in different ways. It's simply a question of making your fuck-ups work for you."-Aidan

Life is about choices and chances. You make a choice and take a chance.

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. "Give him one more chance.

The ending shouldn't determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don't think it can--didn't Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot be contingent upon an end-point over which we have no control? That if we are happy right now, that means something, even if we die tomorrow? Narrative integrity is overrated. I don't need to know that the story of my life has a happy ending to enjoy it. A good thing, too, because I hear all the characters die in the end.

Alexa Stevenson

Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.

stephen christian

Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow,it's about this particular moment!

Perhaps I shouldn’t like it so much, but I’ve always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.

LeAnn Neal Reilly

You control whether you are happy. It's all your narrative and you can change it if you choose to." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

One's manner of living, is a matter of life

Elio Melo

Some memories seems to be so far away .. however it was just yesterday !! Others seem to be so clear ,, however it was years ago !! Actually it depends on how far we are from those who shared us those moments !!

When admiring human accomplishments we should not confusethe achievements of the few for the capacity of the many.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.

Chrys Fey

And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?

Lee Smith

Sometimes you need to fight your demons yet, sometimes you just need to embrace them.

A. Mani

My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends,It is but sad Decay, so,Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others couldn't be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange...CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.

Shelley K. Wall

Life for dreamers may not be easy, but it beats drifting. You never know where you'll end up drifting, maybe someplace good, maybe not." - L. R. W. Lee

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt.

A. Mani

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