#philosophical

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... ↗

— Susan Cooper

#philosophical #theater #theatre #inspirational

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself? ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#philosophical #wisdom #friendship

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artsy #being-practical #cooking #creativity

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #philosophical #the-alchemist #inspirational

To experience peace ~ stop disturbing it! ↗

— Julia Heywood

#spiritual-quotes #spiritual-wisdom #experience

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten. ↗

— Jacob Grimm

#death

Tell me yourself directly, I challenge you – reply: imagine that you yourself are erecting the edifice of human fortune with the goal of, at the finale, making people happy, of at last giving them peace and quiet, but that in order to do it would be necessary and unavoidable to torture to death only one little creature, that same little child that beat its little fist, and on its unavenged tears to found that edifice, would you agree to be the architect on those conditions, tell me and tell me truly? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#death

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dreams #inspirational #philosophical #reality #dreams

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.... ↗

— Stephen King

#meaningful #philosophical #realistic #life