Quotes About Life

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

Everything may happen.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

You love life because life's all there is.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.