Philosophy Quotes

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

- Jonathan Swift

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

- Cassandra Clare

"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, and its own desires."

- Goethe

"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there."

- George Harrison

"Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty."

- Robert Frost

"This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is."

- Dennis Rodman

"Life is not hard. Life is very simple."

- Ben Wallace

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same"

- Colin R. Davis

"Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not"

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans"

- John Lennon

"You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough"

- Mae West

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved"

- D. H. Lawrence

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale"

- Hans Christian Andersen

"History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"Only animals were not expelled from Paradise."

- Milan Kundera

"The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain."

- Buddha

"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"

- Buddha

"It’s better to travel well than to arrive."

- Buddha

"Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable."

- R.D. Laing

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."

- John F. Kennedy

"Baseball is a game of the soul."

- Pedro Martinez

"Adopt the pace of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A river that forgets its source will surely dry up."

- Yoruba Proverb

"The water tells none of its secrets."

- Nikos Engonopoulos

"A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like."

- Vernon Howard

"Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."

- Lucy Larcom

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

- Hermann Hesse

"Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful."

"Life is like a waterfall – always moving."