Life Philosophy Quotes

"If you don't program yourself, life will program you." "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do." "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." "The soul of success is surrendering to what is." "Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contempti" "Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." "Sometimes I believe it is best to take the child's approach to life, which assumes no limitation at all. Children set out to do things without knowing that they are not supposed to be able to do them." "Positively charged people choose to react positively to life because they see no benefit in letting life get the upper hand. They don't assign blame or look for a cause when a problem occurs. They look for the solution." "I don't believe that man was born to work for a living; I believe he was born to make what he lives for HIS WORK." "You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are." "Life is what happens while you are making other plans." "Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted." "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." "You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." "Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"