88 Life Philosophy Quotes

In our fast-paced world, finding wisdom and inspiration can sometimes feel like a daunting task. Yet, the right words have the power to illuminate our path and reshape our perspective. Whether it's the eloquent musings of ancient philosophers or the profound reflections of contemporary thinkers, life philosophy quotes offer timeless insights that resonate across generations. Join us as we embark on a journey through a curated collection of the top 88 life philosophy quotes, each selected to inspire, challenge, and uplift. Dive deep into the essence of human existence and discover the timeless wisdom that can guide you in your daily 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. “God helps those who strut their stuff.” - Dan Sofer

3. “It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.” - Bryce Courtenay

4. “How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.''And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.” - Honoré de Balzac

5. “Je cherche dans la mort la vie,Dans la prison la liberté,La santé dans la maladie,Dans le traître la loyauté.Mais mon infortune est si grandeQue le destin impatienté,Si l'impossible je demande,M'a le possible refusé.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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. “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.” - Louise Erdrich

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. “Live each day as if it were your last, for one day, you're sure to be right.” - Kenneth G. Ross

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. “To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.” - Heather Marie Adkins

17. “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

18. “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

19. “احذر،لا تخاطر مع الحقيقة..اكتف بما لديك من جزئياتها،حينما تعرف الكل،لاشيء ينقذك من حتمية الجنون” - واسيني الأعرج

20. “Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.” - Julio Ramón Ribeyro

21. “Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.” - Nadina Boun

22. “The first day of the rest of my life.” - Lee Child

23. “Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully” - Kate Spade

24. “A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness” - Chinua Achebe

25. “If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string” - Benny Bellamacina

26. “I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination.” - Carroll Bryant

27. “In the dark , everything is scary” - Sandra Chami Kassis

28. “It was Don Paolo's birthday and all the people of the village were gathered in the piazza to celebrate him. The band played, the wine flowed, the children danced, and, as he stood for a moment alone under the pergola, a little girl approached the the beloved priest. "But Don Paolo, are you not happy?" she asked him. "Of course I am happy," he assured the little girl. "Why, then, aren't you crying?” - Marlena De Blasi

29. “Talking is nothing. Doing is something.” - Hlovate

30. “Life is full of changes. And surprises. And the inexplicable(s).” - Hlovate

31. “Life is not sugar coated.” - Edna Stewart

32. “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

33. “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

34. “life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough” - Katherine Paterson

35. “Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.” - Haruki Murakami

36. “It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.” - Junot Diaz

37. “Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful.” - adnan khan

38. “Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.” - Samantha Sotto

39. “Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating...” - CM Punk

40. “They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.""Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.""We need more special effects and dance numbers.” - Bill Watterson

41. “Er is slechts één rijkdom en dat zijn de banden tussen de mensen onderling.Als we ons enkel en alleen inspannen voor materieel gewin, bouwen we onze eigen gevangenis. Dan veroordelen we onszelf tot eenzame opsluiting, met onze munten van as waarmee we niets kunnen kopen dat het waard is om voor te leven. Translation via Google translate: There is only one wealth and that are the ties between people.If we only strive for material gain, we build our own prison. Then we condemn ourselves to solitary confinement, with our coins of ash with which we can't buy anything that is worth living for.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

42. “You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men fuller of talk and rare adventure in the sun and wind and rain, than a chestnut is of meat; who were out not only in ‘75 and 1812, but have been out every day of their lives; greater men than Homer, or Chaucer, or Shakespeare, only they never got time to say so; they never took to the way of writing. Look at their fields, and imagine what they might write, if ever they should put pen to paper. Or what have they not written on the face of the earth already, clearing, and burning, and scratching, and harrowing, and plowing, and subsoiling, in and in, and out and out, and over and over, again and again, erasing what they had already written for want of parchment.” - Henry David Thoreau

43. “Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness," he enumerated silkily. "You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.” - Margaret Mitchell

44. “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

45. “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

46. “Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.” - Jojo Moyes

47. “You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.” - Stieg Larsson

48. “كن في حياتك كمتن نص في الكتاب، ودع الحواشي لوقت الأزمات” - Mohammad Ameen Ben Ali

49. “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

50. “To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.” - Shunryu Suzuki

51. “If you say you can't, you won't!The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.” - Jody Provost

52. “Trying to change the outside by making changes to the outside, is like trying to make your lips red in your reflection by putting lipstick on the mirror!” - Odille Rault

53. “She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.” - Jackson Burnett

54. “Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.” - D.B. Harrop

55. “Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...” - David Bowie

56. “He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.” - Erin McCarthy

57. “One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)” - Ingmar Bergman

58. “Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c'è nessun altro posto dove andare.” - Jack Kerouac

59. “Vom Leben muß man saufen.” - Benjamin Lebert

60. “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

61. “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.” - Randy Komisar

62. “You're never too old to be young.” - Paul Palnik

63. “Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.” - A.M. Hudson

64. “And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” - Paulo Coelho

65. “Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.” - Paul Russell

66. “You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand.” - Lionel Suggs

67. “خرج جوادٌ من مكانٍ غير معروفحمَلَنا حيثُ ذُقنا هُنا كلُ العِشقوحتى لم نعُد نحيا كذلك، هذا الطَعمُ!خمرٌ، نستقيهِ على الدوام.” - جلال الدين الرومي

68. “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

69. “Life is real, not ideal.” - Heather Muzik

70. “‎Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret” - Karl Kloppenborg

71. “Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.” - Clyde Dsouza

72. “I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.” - Clyde Dsouza

73. “Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.Rely on your Self; self-reliance” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

74. “So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed.” - one of the ancient Greeks I'm on a hunt to find which one.

75. “Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.” - Ursula A. Ciller

76. “Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility offeelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.” - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

77. “O man ! Do and Do something otherwise thou will have the only deposit of Zilch with thee.” - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

78. “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

79. “Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” - Anthon St. Maarten

80. “Life will be better when we start to enjoy it” - Putu Satria Jaya Guna

81. “You saved my life.I trust you until you give me a reason to do otherwise” - Kristen Painter

82. “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

83. “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

84. “Mene više ništa ne može da porazi. Ni začudi. Ni zasmeje. Zato iskreno sažaljevam žive. Oni ne znaju da je od prostora na zemlji čoveku neophodan samo prostor komotnog ležaja. Od vremena, dok voli. Od imanja, da nije ni gladan ni žedan. Od znanja, da zna svoje telo. Od prava, da sme da ne voli onog koga ne voli. I još ponešto slobode za sebičluk i igru” - Dobrica Ćosić

85. “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

86. “Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.” - Rick Riordan

87. “Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!” - Andrew James Pritchard

88. “...a small stream...sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it, look at your reflection in the water, and even wash your hands in it. It is yours, your personal stream. Yet you know that it has originated in the sea and is on its way back to where it has come from. When passing by your house, however, it is yours. You can say it is a personal moment you have torn out of eternity to keep in your pocket for yourself.” - Fatemeh Keshavarz