Philosophy Quotes

"Mental health … is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going."

- Noam Shpancer

"You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"If life is a prison, then some people are prisoners who have too much freedom."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing."

- Tove Jansson

"Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows and to improve their conditions of life."

- Albert Einstein

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"A world which sees art and engineering as divided is not seeing the world as a whole."

- Professor Sir Edmund Happold

"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

- Mary Oliver

"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."

- Flannery O'Connor

"Most good copywriters fall into two categories. Poets. And killers. Poets see an ad as an end. Killers as a means to an end."

- William Maynard

"A business man is no different from any other kind."

- Robert Collier

"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again."

- Eudora Welty

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

- E. L. Doctorow

"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time–proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan

"A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God."

- Sidney Sheldon

""Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.""

- Mark Twain

""To fear aging and death is to waste the time we have now.""

- Paulo Coelho

""To age is to lose everything…except one’s soul.""

- Julio Cortázar

"Writers live twice."

- Natalie Goldberg

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

- Viktor Frankl

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"It’s the Circle of Life and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, ’til we find our place on the path unwinding."

- Rafiki

"Any story worth telling is worth telling twice."

- Rafiki

"Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose."

- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"Everything that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."

- William Shakespeare

"Time takes all and gives all."

- Giordano Bruno

"Forever — is composed of Nows — / ‘Tis not a different time — / Except for Infiniteness — / And Latitude of Home —"

- Emily Dickinson

"Life is just a bowl of cherries, / Don’t take it too serious; it’s too mysterious."

- Lew Brown

"It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

- Yogi Berra