89 Inspiring Philosophy Of Life Quotes

In a world bustling with noise and distractions, finding moments of reflection can be a rare treasure. Philosophy of life quotes offer just that—concise nuggets of wisdom that provoke thought and inspire change. Whether you're seeking solace during challenging times or looking to deepen your understanding of the human experience, these quotes serve as guiding lights. Compiled from the minds of great thinkers, poets, and philosophers, this curated collection of 89 inspiring philosophy of life quotes promises to uplift your spirit and provide a fresh perspective on both the mundane and the profound aspects of life. Dive in and let the words lead you on a journey of introspection and growth.

1. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” - Victor Frankl

2. “Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.” - Minton Sparks

3. “From the managerial perspective, Sir Oliver Humperdink, a heinous sort for most of his career, said the release of pentup emotions might even have been healthy for mind and soul. "As heels, we were able to be as annoying and politically incorrect’ as possible.We were able to say and do what everyone probably wanted to say and do, but, for one reason or another, could never, ever get away with. And, by being able to do so, I generally found that my fellow heels were much more 'easygoing' than our babyface counterparts who had to 'toe the line.” - Greg Oliver

4. “Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody;and from being nobody to being everybody.This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

5. “Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.” - Oscar Wilde

6. “I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.” - Barbara Kingsolver

7. “I miei gridi erano ben atroci, poiché le riviste che prima mi sollecitavano, ora mi respingono; ma la giustizia non può venire soffocata perché arde. Io non domando fama, io domando ascolto.” - Sibilla Aleramo

8. “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary. From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.” - Epictetus (From Manual 51)

9. “من كانني قبل ان أكونه؟ من كنته قبل ان يكونني ؟من كنت ؟ من ساكون ؟!” - سركون بولص

10. “It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.” - Daniel Kehlmann

11. “Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.” - Marianne Curley

12. “I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers on a new path to find. So for now I'll continue to drop ink and not worry about what other people think.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

13. “الحسد عاطفه مفعمه بالجبن والعار بحيث لا يجرؤ انسان على الاعتراف بها” - روشستر

14. “Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.” - Manly P Hall

15. “If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.” - E. Lockhart

16. “No matter where you go, there you are.” - Keith Caserta

17. “Don't make me come down there. - God” - Keith Caserta

18. “When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.” - Dale Renton

19. “If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?” - Carl Sagan

20. “Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.” - Mahmoud Darwish

21. “One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda” - Eva Ibbotson

22. “The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.” - Carroll Bryant

23. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

24. “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.” - Bertholt Brecht

25. “But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.” - Mark Twain

26. “Why don’t we just say it already?” He smirked. “I mean come on now.”I eyed him carefully not knowing where to step. “What is it you think we want to say?”“That we love each other. I kick myself every time I stopped myself from saying it. And I know you love me and that’s all that matters,” he said, pulling me close instead of away this time. We stared at the water in a shared silence.My mind wished I could say the same thing, but knowing if I wanted to was the problem. Did I even know how?” - Holly Hood

27. “إن القلق حالة من التوتر تنتابنا حينما ننقسم في داخلنا و نشهد رغباتنا و هي تقتتل و تتصارع ..إنها اللحظة الأليمة التي تتجلى فيها عداوتنا لأنفسنا ، و هي عداوة مفزعة .. لأن لا شئ فيها يمكن لمسه بالأصبع أو رؤيته رؤية العيان .. "د.مصطفى محمود ، الأحلام” - مصطفى محمود

28. “It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

29. “To be, or not to be: what a question!” - E.A. Bucchianeri

30. “Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West.” - Daniel Quinn

31. “All I know is that I do not know anything” - Socrates

32. “Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

33. “There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” - Albert Camus

34. “هكــذا دائمــاً هى الحيــاة .. بطيئــة فى تحقيق أحلامِنــا .. و هكـذ دائمــاً هو الموت .. سريع فى خطفِهــا منـــا ..” - هبة غاندى

35. “Не сме нито глупави, нито умни.Винаги сме някъде по средата.Това ни уморява и ни прави тъжни.Човек трябва да знае къде му е мястото.” - Erich Maria Remarque Translated by A.W. Wheen

36. “Вечер угасне електричеството.Обгърне ме благодетелна тъмнина.Все едно че съм сама.Никой не ме вижда.Дори мога да плача.Какво блаженство!Да плачеш,без да те питат защо плачеш,без да те утешават.Но за такова щастие се изисква тренировка:да плачеш,без да издадеш никакъв звук,и да си готов да отговориш на внезапен въпрос с най-невинен глас:”Четката е на етажерката!” - Блага Димитрова

37. “To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.” - Gary Inbinder

38. “...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life...” - Daniel Defoe

39. “When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.” - Jen Knox

40. “A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.” - John le Carré

41. “Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?” - Aysha Taryam

42. “There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head.” - Lin Yutang

43. “Find your truth, live your truth.” - J. T. OWENS

44. “We’re beings toward death, we’re featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That's us.” - Cornel West

45. “There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!” - Vikram Roy

46. “Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.” - Vikram Roy

47. “Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.” - Franz Kafka

48. “Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.” - Franz Kafka

49. “Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!” - Tae Yun Kim

50. “There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.” - Dean Koontz

51. “Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.” - Subhan Zein

52. “I think about that centurion from time to time and wonder, had he retired to a farm in Campagna, happy with his harvest of grapes and grandchildren, or had he fallen amongst his comrades on some distant, ruined field, defending the honor and the ever-expanding borders of the Republic? What we foreigners have failed to comprehend over the centuries is that the proud centurion would have found either fate equally satisfying. This is why Rome grows, and the rest of the world shrinks.” - Andrew Levkoff

53. “Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

54. “If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of beliefs and a lifestyle that adheres to this lack of belief? NO, IT ONLY IMPLIES that I do not believe in faeries, elves and trolls. So one cannot extrapolate morality, philosophy, cosmology, character, political party, or any other thing of that sort from the mere lack of belief in one other thing.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

55. “These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

56. “The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.” - Chinua Achebe

57. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

58. “Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.” - Justina Chen Headley

59. “Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.” - John Dewey

60. “Always tell yourself that you are as good as anyone that breathes; that you have two hands and a brain, and a little time in which to use them. But they are enough, and no one has any more. And if you train and force them to serve you well, you can reach any height to which you aspire. But to waste any of them is to betray yourself.” - Robert Stroud

61. “But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.” - Mitch Albom

62. “You're too young to decide to live forever.” - Maxine Hong Kingston

63. “Claude tiene una pinche potencia omfg perdí la cuenta de cuentas veces yo no podía ni caminar después.” - Mariana Calderón de la Barca

64. “It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.” - Alain De Botton

65. “My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.” - Derek Parfit

66. “Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?” - Shankara

67. “You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.” - C.L. Wilson

68. “The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier attitude toward death that has always puzzled me. My impression is that...most of the defenders of these weapons are not suitably horrified at the possibility of a war in which hundreds of millions of people would be killed...I suspect that an important factor may be belief in an afterlife, and that the proporttion of those who think that death is not the end is much higher among the partisans of the bomb than among its opponents.” - Thomas Nagel

69. “The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.” - Marcus Aurelius

70. “nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul” - Prateek Vyas

71. “He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.”“Not all men are destined for greatness,” I reminded him.“Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?”“This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.”“No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?” - Robin Hobb

72. “In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...” - Christopher Earle

73. “Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience” - Christopher Marshall

74. “The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long. Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (..) Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life meaningful.” - Thomas Hylland Eriksen

75. “The more I learn, the more I yearn.” - Aaron B. Powell

76. “Experience is the treasure of any persona.” - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

77. “One's mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.” - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

78. “Be such that people get to know of you as you are rather than comparing to others.” - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

79. “Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.” - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

80. “Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.” - Nicolas Chamfort

81. “Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

82. “There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

83. “ساعات بنعمل غلطات صغيرة عشان نصلِّح غلطة أكبرمن رواية تراب الماس على لسان الخواجة لييتو.” - أحمد مراد

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

85. “Don`t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want” - Mahmoud Reda

86. “LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL.” - Basith

87. “عندما تعمل بالحكومة لوقت طويل - لاقدر الله ذلك - تتحول حياتك إلى سلسلة من الأعوام ،لا الأيام ، فتتذكر ما حدث لك عاماً بعام ، و يتداخل كل ماحدث طوال العام كأنه كان يوماً واحداً ، يغلب عليه حدث واحد هو الذي يعلق بذهنك و يُطمس ما عداه ” - عز الدين شكرى فشير

88. “يا الله !هناك أشياء تفعلها أو تسكت عنها دون سوء نية منك ... وحين تٌدرك هول نتائجها يكون الوقت قد فات ، و الثمن أصبح هائلاً” - عز الدين شكرى فشير

89. “Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.” - Bryant McGill