I’ve always liked philosophy and being introspective. I got into philosophy while searching for purpose, direction, and lessons to learn. Reading the works and thoughts of philosophers has given me solace and comfort. Today, I’m sharing quotes that I’ve found inspiring or thought-provoking enough to save in my collection. I’m also including two of my own thoughts. :P

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” - Harun Yahya

“Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it.”
- Saint Augustine

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” - Aristotle

“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them or bear with them.” - Marcus Aurelius

“We become what we think about” - Earl Nightingale

”Hell is the absence of the people you long for.” - Neil Gaiman

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pine

“Some people only “wake up” when faced with a terminal illness, finally starting to truly live their lives. The truth is, we are all terminally ill — every second, we are slowly dying. Time is passing, and so is your life. Start living now. Acknowledge the terminal illness that is the passage of time.” - Ashton (me)

“Dum spiro, spero” (While I breath, I hope) - Latin phrase

“I’m a human, like everyone else I’m not special in any way in this regard, only thing that makes me different from others are my own experiences. I wish that people dropped the ego. You are NOT special. Everyone suffers from something. You are no better than anyone else. Your status doesn’t mean anything. Only thing that is important, and which many people lack is love. Unconditional love towards others. Helping without feeling the need to be awarded for what you do. If someone punches you in a face, you want to hit them back. If someone compliments you, you may feel like complimenting someone else later. Better life starts with You. I want people to know this.” - Ashton (me)

“Grief is just love that has nowhere to go” - Jamie Anderson

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Ichi-go ichi-e (One time, one meeting)

“Only when we realise that it’s not another day, but one day less, we will begin to appreciate the truly important things.” - Unknown

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The fears we don’t face become our limits.” - Robin Sharma

“Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest, but about who came and never left your side.” – Unknown

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius

“Do not regret the love you gave. Even if it wasn’t returned, it was a reflection of who you are, not who they are.” - Unknown

A mistake that humbles you is better than the achievement that makes you arrogant. - Unknown

“Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Yesterday I was clever And I wanted to change the world But today I am wise And I want to change myself” - Rumi, Persian poet

“You can’t change people around you but you can change people around you.”
- The Minimalists

„The more you sweat in the practise, the less you bleed in the battle” - Army proverb

“To be loved is to be changed” - Madeleine L’Engle

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” - Confucius

“Different paths same sky” - Unknown

More thought-like quotes:

“World is cruel therefore I won’t be”

“Not everyday is good but there is something good in every day”

“A tree falls the way it leans”

“Only time can answer your questions”

“To be angry is to let other’s mistakes control. To forgive is to control yourself.”

“As long as you have yourself, you have someone”

“Don’t strive to be well known, Strive to be worth knowing”

“You can either complain about your problems, or change them.”

“A person who makes you chase, isn’t worth chasing.”

“No reason to stay is a good reason to leave.”

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