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