Quotes About Life

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.