Philosophical Quotes

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Isobelle Carmody

Do I ever feel like anything?

Nyrae Dawn

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life.(as said by Mrs. Pearson)

Adam Gopnik

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

James McGregor

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

Donzella Michele Malone

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

Lynn C. Tolson

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann

Todo pasa y todo queda, / Pero lo nuestro es pasar, / Pasar haciendo caminos,/ Caminos sobre el mar.

Antonio Machado

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.

T.F. Hodge

Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Christopher Brennan

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

Ozzie Zehner

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Terry Goodkind

Apprentices Needed, Not DisciplesFor many, the knowledge of a Jesus, a Lao-tzu, a Buddha, or a Gandhi is complete and unassailable. But we do them and their vision a disservice when we follow them rather than using what they have taught to build upon as we strive toward our goal of a better society.

William Coperthwaite

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.

Maimonides

In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be.

J.C. Marino

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs!

Dew Platt

I do, I am

Benny Bellamacina

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Benny Bellamacina