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philosophical quotes

1. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2.  “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3.  “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

4.  “The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates

5.  “No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience” John Locke

6.  “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw

7.  “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” —Confucius

8.  “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” —Aristotle

9.  “I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.” Han Fei

10.  “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ”

Søren Kierkegaard

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11.  “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” Abraham Joshua Heschel

12.  “Every failure is a step to success.” William Whewell

13.  “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Philo

14.  “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein

15.  “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

16.  “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Confucius

17.  “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” —Albert Einstein

18.  “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” —John Stuart Mill

19.  “The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” —Socrates

20.  “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts

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21.  “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” Aristotle

22.  “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius

23.  “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” —Immanuel Kant

24.  “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus

25.  “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus

26.  “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” Jean de la Bruyere

27.  “May you live every day of your life.” —Jonathan Swift

28.  “Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” —Soren Kierkegaard

29.  “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” Henri Bergson

30.  “Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.” Jeremy Bentham

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