Philosophy Quotes That Illuminate the Essence of Life
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. – Gary Keller
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll
Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Pablo Picasso
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. – David Russell
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. – Leo Rosten
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet. – Sarah Louise Delany
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John W. Gardner
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
Philosophy Quotes That Illuminate the Essence of Life part 2
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. – James Taylor
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Pablo Picasso
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. – Steve Maraboli
The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
What we do in life echoes in eternity. – Maximus Decimus Meridius (from the movie Gladiator)
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now. – Marcel Proust
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. – Leo Rosten
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it. – Dennis P. Kimbro
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela
The purpose of life is not to win. It is to grow and to share, to discover and to contribute, to love and to be loved, to go beyond ourselves and to leave the world a better place. – Ralph Nader
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. – Paul Kurtz
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. – Oliver Goldsmith
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
