Philosophy Quotes - Page 54

There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare. Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair.

The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow.

To commit to the present moment is to accept our inability to control the future and accept that many of our fears and reactions are just what they are, thoughts and emotions that are irrationally internalized. We will never be completely void of the temptations to look into the future when we are in the present; however, one must come to the understanding that by looking too far off into the future, we taint the future by creating an artificial expectation of what the future should hold, and are emotionally drained when it holds something else. Focus on the present, and you will come to have more control over the future naturally.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to live within your means or you'll find yourself trying to dig your way out of a hole. Whatever is meant for you is for you. Don't lose yourself trying to live another's life

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.

I can hear the songs of your eyes, I can feel the warmth of your glowing cheek, and I can get lost in the smile of your soul.

To make it a perfect season, let us feel joy and love everyone without a reason.

Don’t just wish and dream—take action to make it happen.

Oh my dear! No matter where you are, I will be with you either in person or in my heart.

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

With endless possibilities, every morning the sunrises.

Let happiness bloom. In the caring love,In the softness of your tender voice,In the nonjudgmental love,In the beauty and pureness of a smile.

Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.

No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates.

To be happy, be the cause of happiness for others.

When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone.

You will feel powerful only when you learn to use the power of love.

Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have.

To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.

When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind.

Through technology the whole world has now become the media's parish, talk-show hosts the prophets, actors and musicians the priests, and any script will do for the Scriptures as long as moral constraints are removed. Sitting before a well-lit box is all the cultic performance needs, and each person can enthrone his or her own self as divine. Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with he arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.

To smell and enjoy the beauty of this precious journey we call life, decorate yourself with luscious scenic nature.

If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

Understanding what makes you 'tick' isn't half as much fun as finding out what makes you 'tock'!

A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.

The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation---this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples.

Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them.

Your house is not your home.My world is not your world.Your thoughts are your homewhere you're dwelling all along.

There are not many things that are more powerful than love.

Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Every woman is beautiful. Every woman is amazing because every woman’s heart is filled with the motherly instinct of unconditional love.

And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for those inky black words and kaleidoscope colored experiences.

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.

It is better to love and lose than to hurt and win.

Don't believe everything you are told, if it resonates within you, then listen and act.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires.

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.

Anxiety swarms in the heart like worms infect the whole body.