#phil

You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#men

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#inspirational #philosophy #inspirational

The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. ↗

— Anonymous

#life-philosophy #inspirational

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. ↗

— James Carroll

#meditation #philosophy #relaxation #tranquility #inspirational

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#inspirational-quote #literature #love #motivation #passion

I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#politics #religion #writing #change

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. ↗

— James Baldwin

#philosophical #inspirational

Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us. ↗

— Richie Singh

#inspirational-life #life #philosophical #thought-provoking #inspirational

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. ↗

— R.D. Laing

#philosophy #psychiatry #inspirational