Philosophy Quotes - Page 156

To be kind to others, be kind to yourself first.

Often we concentrate on the process and forget the results.

Let us be loving, be kind, be simple, be silly, be happy.

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you.

When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.

Only by spending and investing love you can get it back. You are adorned with unlimited love, so spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can.

Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision.

Be selfless to be helpful.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.

Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.

Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.

Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.

Yesterday I soared above the clouds. Today I'll walk the earth again.

Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower.

Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos.

The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior light connects me with all the other creatures that inhabit this world of rocks, air, grass, woods, and water. My genetic code links me inextricably with all of nature. I enter the medley in the river of life with the ability to respond as life unfolds before my childlike eyes. My homemade medicinal poultice might not be of any benefit to other people. Nonetheless, we should each write our stories because each of us aims to attain a greater degree of awareness of our own authenticity. We owe a moral obligation to our family, friends, and ourselves as well as to the community to make a determined effort to wring the most out of life. We must applaud all efforts to investigate the human condition. Even if my writing amounts to nothing more than a clumsy attempt to travel the same tracks other people burnished with much more insight, clarity, precision, and style, it is an act of self-definition to ascribe to any philosophy. Philosophy represents a living charter; it is a life of action.

To expand your wings, be persistent in learning new things.

I love you not because you are perfect, but because I find you inside myself.

We might have a different height and different color.But we all have parents, so we are brother and sister.We all have a different goal and a different vision.We all like to live in peace and that is our mission.We like to share our love and the world with each other.We like to live in harmony, trust, and peace forever.

Kindness has a mysterious power which can transcend and transform anything it touches.

The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assumed that I can know God in my thought. In mysticism, which is the consequent outcome of monotheism, the attempt is given up to know God by thought, and it is replaced by the experience of union with God in which there is no more room—and no need—for knowledge about God.

Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success.

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace.

To find the peace, learn to trust.

Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

True kindness is evidence of true courage.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.

Tomorrow is a new day if you begin it today.

Love as a river loves the ocean.

Do not let your problems prevent you from knocking on the doors of possibilities.

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

I am yours but you are free of mine.My love is yours but I don't want any return

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...

Your world is nothing but a reflection of your mind.

Loneliness doesn't come from being alone.It comes from seeing other people together.

Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions.

You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine.

To enjoy the freshness of life, be simple like water.

Smile more to attract more.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.

What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.

Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s likewhatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of thatpretense is gone.“And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.”“That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.”“Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.”“Do you believe in fate?”“I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. Youknow?

Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.

It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it.

Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize.

When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.

Sleeping is terrifying.When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll find yourself back out of the labyrinth again.Usually you do.But sometimes you don't.It's that uncertainty, more than anything, which kills me. That I might not wake up, and wouldn't know it.That I could be dead, dreaming I'm alive.

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

The Getsmart PrayerI do my laundry and you do yours,I am not in this life to listen to your ceaseless yammering,And you are not in this world for any discernable reason at all.You are you, and I am I, and I got the better deal.And if by chance we find each other, it will be unspeakably tedious.Fuck off.