“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 7
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363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 5
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Byrne
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology, 399 BC
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life, c. 49 AD
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders · Reader's Digest, 1957
“The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The coin is the same. It just depends which side you're watching.”
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman · The Sandman, 1989
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
“I'm always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”
Charles Caleb Colton · Lacon, 1820
