Philosophy Quotes - Page 225

If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have.

I am not me. I am not my body. I am my love, my kindness, and my service.

You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.

I am not pretty; I am not ugly. I am not true, and I am not false. I am just me—a reality, a conception, and not a misinterpretation.

Ah! Let the soul dance with joyLet us sit in dark deep silencenow feel, see and enjoy!

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

I have been loved enough, now I want to be respected.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.

The price of happiness is unconditional love.

Understand that religion, at least western versions of it, rests on a type of thinking called Revelation. This mode holds that truths concerning the workings of reality are hidden, masked by, through or behind a deity such that only a few privileged souls are able to see through the veil and “reveal” those truths. . . But (around 1600) revelation as a means of understanding began to be challenged by two other methods of differentiating truth from fallacy: Reason and Empiricism.

Let us dance as if life is a dance of our soul and spirit.

If you learn how to value time, you will have enough. If you don’t value time, then you will suffer from the lack of time.

Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy.

For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself agood, and makes goodness arise even from evils byopposing them or enduring them with courage.

But no matte what kind of an understanding is adopted, whether associated with positivism, which asserts that the truth can only be reached by trial and error, or rationalism, which asserts that everything can be explained and grasped by reason, whether the perspective of romanticism, which overemphasizes imagination and sensitivity, or an approach based on ardent naturalism, whether based on realism, which aims to describe everything as it is including its shortcomings, or a curiosity-raising approach such as surrealism, whether idealism, which asserts that there is nothing real but ideas, or cubism, which asserts that there is nothing real but instead of direct description, or some other such current or perspective, that is not true poetry.

We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths.

The one ultimate rule of the Quranic fundamentalists is “there is one God and Mohammed is his prophet”. Everything beyond that not only is bad, but must be destroyed forthwith. At moment’s notice, every man or woman, who does not exactly believe in that, must be killed.... This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst.

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

You think that I'm different.You should look in the mirror sometime.

Love is waiting for you lifting to hand, open your heart, and accept it.

Let your thoughts, intentions, imaginations, and dreams fly under a clear blue sky with a spring breeze floating like a butterfly from flower to flower. See the beauty of mankind. Enjoy the nectar of life. It will shift your awareness to a higher consciousness.

I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

for to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.

To fill your life with joy and happiness, the greatest gift that you can give is love and kindness. Wishing you a memorable birthday!

To create new reality, change the perception but not the reality.

Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it.

I have no wealth or splendors to give, but I have love and smiles to share.

To find the magnificence of life, count your blessings.

Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.

Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world.

I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As I grew older and the scars of wisdom imprinted on my soul and chest, I realized a second chance took a monumental amount of strength and some people deserve a chance to right their wrongs. Now, I would gladly allow another the opportunity to cauterize their wounds at the risk of ripping open my tight-knit scars. I would bleed for you and feel alive rather than watch with cold eyes as you decay.

In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

Kindness can heal a wound that medicine can't touch.

By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths.These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

Expect to wonder to find wonder.

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…

A positive life is a gift of positive thoughts.

When you act strong you are truly weak. When you are soft and kind your heart is truly strong.

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you.

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Without women, humanity will be history.

The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.

Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

Never set limits when you are loving someone.

We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being. The more objective truth increases, the more our inner certitude decreases. Our fantastically increased technical power, and each forward step in technology is experienced by many as a new push toward our possible annihilation. Nietzsche was strangely prophetic when he said,“We live in a period of atomic chaos…the terrible apparition…the Nation State…and the hunt for happiness will never be greater than when it must be caught between today and tomorrow; because the day after tomorrow all hunting time may have come to an end altogether.”Sensing this, and despairing of ever finding meaning in life, people these days seize on the many ways of dulling their awareness by apathy, by psychic numbing, or by hedonism. Others, especially young people, elect in alarming and increasing numbers to escape their own being by suicide.

I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.