Quotes About Life

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.

One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.