Aug. 16, 2024, 12:45 p.m.
In a world that often moves at breakneck speed, taking a moment to reflect on life's deeper meanings can provide much-needed clarity and inspiration. Whether you're searching for motivation, a fresh perspective, or a gentle reminder of what's truly important, the right words can make all the difference. Our collection of the top 63 inspirational life philosophy quotes has been carefully selected to uplift your spirit and provoke thought. Dive in and let these timeless pieces of wisdom guide you on your journey, offering insights into love, happiness, perseverance, and the essence of a well-lived life.
1. “It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.” - Alexander McCall Smith
2. “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - Craig Lancaster
3. “God helps those who strut their stuff.” - Dan Sofer
4. “Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums.And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.” - Janet Evanovich
5. “The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.” - Liza Wiemer
6. “هذه هي الاسئلة ذاتها التي تجول في رأي تيريزا منذ الصغر .ذلك لأن الاسئلة الهامة فعلا تلك التي يصوغها طفل . وحدها الاسئله الساذجة هي الاسئله الهامة فعلا . تلك الاسئله التي تبقي من دون جواب . ان سؤال من دون جواب حاجز لا طرقات بعده . وبطريقة اخري الاسئلة التي تبقي دون جواب هي التي تشير الي حدود الامكانات الانسانية ، وهي التي ترسم حدود وجودنا” - ميلان كونديرا
7. “Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.” - Barbara Rogan
8. “You love life because life's all there is.” - Glen Duncan
9. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” - Bohdi Sanders
10. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...” - Robert Browing
11. “Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of “if only’s” leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one’s final iteration of the excuse became one’s final utterance, and one expired.” - Andrew Levkoff
12. “What you seek you shall never find. For when the Gods made man, They kept immortality to themselves.Fill your belly.Day and night make merry.Let Days be full of joy.Love the child who holds your hand.Let your wife delight in your embrace.For these alone are the concerns of man.” - The Epic of Gilgamesh
13. “If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?” - Bill Watterson
14. “Did I help someone to realize a dream they thought they'd lost? Did I listen when someone told me the reward is worth the cost? Did I praise someone for their efforts and encourage someone toward their dreams? Did I help someone to understand the end never justifies the means? Did I make someone laugh and smile when they would much, rather frown? Was I the one who picked them up when everyone put them down? Am I, the one they confide in and know their conversations secure? Did I provide them with someone to trust in knowing their friendship will always endure? Am I humble and constantly striving to become more than I was yesterday? Did I focus on the successes of others and follow through with all that I say? If I constantly strive to become the one who can say I did to did I's. Then my life is fulfilled, knowing I have achieved life's greatest prize.” - Carl Morris
15. “Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.” - Maria Duenas
16. “Kretanje je duša svega što drhti.Započinje tako da se prvo dogodi trenutakonima koji žive trenutak,a onda se, onima koji žive vječnost,vječnost nametne kao bolest.” - Kemal Mujičić Artnam
17. “To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.” - Heather Marie Adkins
18. “People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don't need anyone else. We're happy doing what we do and having obligation interferes with that. And sometimes I think we don't even need ourselves. What's most important is to find out whether we're right or not.” - Simon Morden
19. “We don’t sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We’re amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both." Edward Nesbit” - Lindsay Clarke
20. “احذر،لا تخاطر مع الحقيقة..اكتف بما لديك من جزئياتها،حينما تعرف الكل،لاشيء ينقذك من حتمية الجنون” - واسيني الأعرج
21. “The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it” - David Eddings
22. “Anyone can grow into something beautiful.” - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
23. “If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string” - Benny Bellamacina
24. “In the dark , everything is scary” - Sandra Chami Kassis
25. “There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.” - Mercedes Lackey
26. “Talking is nothing. Doing is something.” - Hlovate
27. “Life is full of changes. And surprises. And the inexplicable(s).” - Hlovate
28. “Life is not sugar coated.” - Edna Stewart
29. “Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.” - Terry Pratchett
30. “Fear of the unknown.They are afraid of new ideas.They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.” - Wayne W. Dyer
31. “life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough” - Katherine Paterson
32. “I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end.” - Griselda Salazar
33. “Me ei muutu. Arvame, et muutume, kuid see pole nii. Mõni sündmus või inimene võib meis esile tuua joone, millest varem keegi teadlik polnud. Need jooned on alati meie sees olemas, me lihtsalt ei märka neid. Ei märka sedagi, mis väljaspool. Maskid piiravad vaatevälja. Ometi jätab iga inimene, kellega viivuks või aastateks kokku satume, sellele maskile oma kriimu. Mõni inimene kriimustab seda nii tugevalt, et mask hoopiski eest pudeneb. Neile tuleb tänulik olla. Nad päästavad meid.” - Marek Kahro
34. “You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.” - Anthon St. Maarten
35. “This is unbelievable,” James said. “I mean, you guys are out here planning to build an armored car out of my dad’s old, and I mean old, car. Mom is in the house making cookies like this is just an everyday occurrence. Once this starts, you guys probably won’t live through it, and nobody is acting like it’s a big deal. I don’t know that I’m comfortable with my parents preparing for their funeral.” “Everyone has to die of something, son,” Rick said. James looked stunned. “So you are thinking about that as a possibility? Then why go to all the trouble of putting armor on the car and putting in that big engine?” “Because I have to get back to the starting point, which in this case is the Deal’s Gap,” Rick answered. “And the car won’t make it if I don’t make modifications.” “Once they figure out what you’re doing and where you’re going, they’ll ambush you. You won’t be able to get out of it. They’ll gun you and Mom down in cold blood.” James was trying to hide the emotion from his face.” - Rich Hoffman
36. “Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.” - Samantha Sotto
37. “Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.” - Henry Miller
38. “we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.” - Alan Chadwick
39. “manusia mungkin tidak punya kapasitas untuk mengampuni (barangkali hanya Tuhan yang bisa mengampuni), maka yang bisa kita lakukan adalah berdamai. Berdamai dengan sisi gelap yang tak bisa kita kuasai” - Ayu Utami
40. “want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray” - Musician Jason Gray
41. “أهلاً .. مع السلامة " هكذا تقول الحياة لكل منا ببساطة و نحن الآن في فترة ما بين ال أهلاً و ال مع السلامة .” - آيه فوزي
42. “كن في حياتك كمتن نص في الكتاب، ودع الحواشي لوقت الأزمات” - Mohammad Ameen Ben Ali
43. “Weißt du, Jimmy, ich glaube, es wird ganz lustig sein, ein Weilchen in einer Redaktion zu sitzen.""Ich fände es schon sehr lustig, wenn ich _irgendwo_ sitzen dürfte... Na ja, da bleibe ich eben zu Haus und passe auf das Baby auf.""Sei nicht so verbittert, Jimmy, es ist ja nur vorübergehend.""Das ganze Leben ist nur vorübergehend." (S. 250)” - John Dos Passos
44. “Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.” - Richard Bach
45. “Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” - Elna Baker
46. “[...] for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked his pipe, as was his custom in all broils, unless when he apprehended some danger of having it broke in his mouth.” - Henry Fielding
47. “One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)” - Ingmar Bergman
48. “Quello che conta nella Terra promessa non è la terra, è la promessa.” - Guenassia Jean-Michel
49. “I would rather rudder” - Victor J. Garcia
50. “You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?” - Brian MacLearn
51. “The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.” - Will Schwalbe
52. “Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City” - Jemima Pett
53. “Looking at the fire on the stone.” - Daae ALF
54. “خرج جوادٌ من مكانٍ غير معروفحمَلَنا حيثُ ذُقنا هُنا كلُ العِشقوحتى لم نعُد نحيا كذلك، هذا الطَعمُ!خمرٌ، نستقيهِ على الدوام.” - جلال الدين الرومي
55. “I dont care if you have the smallest part to do with my life or the largest, I love everyone I've ever met, and if you don't like me i still respect you as a person rather than hate you for what you believe in.” - Shane Phillips
56. “Life is real, not ideal.” - Heather Muzik
57. “Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret” - Karl Kloppenborg
58. “Life will be better when we start to enjoy it” - Putu Satria Jaya Guna
59. “It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.” - Don Roff
60. “Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.” - Jacques Tardi
61. “In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.” - Michael Poeltl
62. “What was it Danilov told me before I left? Something about how one day I would stand at a crossroads where I could choose the Light, which illuminated the sky with its warmth and golden glow - or the Darkness, which at first seemed soothing and inviting, but which would consume me in its flames. But do I have to wait for that crossroads? Isn't it present at every moment of my life?” - Peter H. Fogtdal
63. “Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ću ga satreti, moja je lična stvar.” - Dobrica Ćosić