89 Inspirational Life Philosophy Quotes

In the journey of life, inspiration acts as a guiding light, illuminating our path with wisdom and clarity. Whether you're facing challenges, seeking motivation, or simply reflecting on your own experiences, the power of a well-crafted quote can provide invaluable insight and encouragement. Our curated collection of the top 89 Inspirational Life Philosophy Quotes serves as a testament to the timeless nature of human wisdom, offering perspectives that resonate across different cultures and eras. These quotes are not just words; they are sparks that can ignite positive change, drive personal growth, and invite deeper reflection on the intricate tapestry of life. Join us as we explore these nuggets of wisdom and discover how they can inspire you to live with purpose and passion.

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. “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. “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

7. “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

8. “Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.” - Barbara Rogan

9. “You love life because life's all there is.” - Glen Duncan

10. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” - Bohdi Sanders

11. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...” - Robert Browing

12. “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

13. “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

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

15. “If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?” - Bill Watterson

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

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

20. “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

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

22. “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

23. “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

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

25. “Anyone can grow into something beautiful.” - Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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

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

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

29. “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

30. “...en av de mänskliga rättigheterna måste vara den att för en tid fådra sig undan allt som händer och sitta så här vid sidan av skeendet,få vända världen ryggen ett ögonblick medan solen lyser och hjärtat fortsätter att dunka.” - Per Anders Fogelström

31. “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

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

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

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

35. “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

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

37. “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

38. “A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we’re at it, what’s the story about?”I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?” - John Steinbeck

39. “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

40. “And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?""They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.” - Paulo Coelho

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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

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

45. “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

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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

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

52. “أهلاً .. مع السلامة " هكذا تقول الحياة لكل منا ببساطة و نحن الآن في فترة ما بين ال أهلاً و ال مع السلامة .” - آيه فوزي

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

54. “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

55. “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

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

57. “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

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

59. “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

60. “[...] 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

61. “You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?” - Brian MacLearn

62. “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

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

64. “The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.” - Anonymous

65. “The greatest foe of human is his mighty wisdom.” - Chandrashekar

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

67. “Looking at the fire on the stone.” - Daae ALF

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

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

70. “She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.” - John le Carré

71. “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

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

73. “Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.” - Arnaldur Indriðason

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

75. “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

76. “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.

77. “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

78. “The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.” - Peter Watts

79. “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

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. “It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.” - Don Roff

83. “Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.” - Jacques Tardi

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “...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