55 philosophical phrases for reflection that awaken inner transformation

It is better to be the king of your silence than the slave of your words.

William Shakespeare

We spend our whole lives trying to conquer things to be happy, when, in fact, we should really live the joy of the simplest moments.

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Dreams are nothing more than our life purposes. Without dreams, we wither our existence, we cling to the immediate.

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Think what they want of you, do what you think is fair.

Pythagoras

Getting started is the hardest part of the job.

Plato

We only see the beauty of the simplicity of everyday life when we lose the freedom to live it.

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The sadness of one who bears iniquity is better than the joy of one who commits it.

Saint Augustine

It is necessary to renew love every day, because a relationship without changes is faced with finitude.

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Walking is part of evolution. All growth requires movement!

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Always look for an occupation; when you have it, don’t think about anything other than trying to do it well.

Tales of Miletus

The rainbow of life seems more vibrant when we give voice to our inner child.

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The free man is master of his will and slave only of his conscience.

Aristotle

The main cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

Comfort zones paralyze achievements and bury dreams.

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

If you’re going to try, go all the way, otherwise don’t even start.

Charles Bukowski

When the only instrument you have is a hammer, every problem that comes your way you treat like a nail.

Mark Twain

Who colors life, is who is willing to surrender to it.

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We live trying to learn to live, and we leave without finding the answer. What matters are the transformations with each challenge.

Adeline Buzier

True generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present.

Albert Camus

Love has a transforming power, but for that, it is necessary to let it enter the atria of the heart.

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Nobody wants the public good that is not in line with his own.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The failure lies in the distortion of priorities.

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Morality, properly speaking, is not the doctrine that teaches us how to be happy, but how we should make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

The important thing is not what they make of us, but what we make of what others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is a treadmill running at full speed: if you stop walking, you will fall.

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It is necessary to dose the intensity by which one lives. What is too intense can hurt, but too little can let it stagnate.

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Finitude scares us when we realize how many good things we will leave behind in our departure.

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Man, as a historical being, inserted in a permanent movement of search, constantly makes and remakes his knowledge.

Paulo Freire

Life is a roller coaster, between ups and downs and that’s what makes it interesting. Imagine walking for years, on a path without emotions.

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Being ourselves causes us to end up excluded by others. However, doing what others want exiles us from ourselves.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Pride divides us even more than interest.

Auguste Comte

The secret of any success lies in the persistence and willpower of those who seek it.

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If you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sorrow of the soul is neglected while difficulties are romanticized.

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They preach so much about equality that they get lost in the differences.

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The present is not a potential past, it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is impossible to find pleasure when we are content to seek it.

Marcel Proust

Grief corrupts even the humblest heart.

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The most important thing is change, movement, dynamism, energy. Only what is dead does not change!

Clarice Lispector

There will be no peace on earth as long as the oppression of peoples, the injustices and the economic imbalances that still exist persist.

Pope Saint John Paul II

Learning is not just in words, silence also teaches us.

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The beginning of wisdom is the admission of ignorance itself.

Socrates

Only that which he is capable of obtaining belongs to each man, and only as long as he is capable of keeping it.

Thomas Hobbes

Sometimes you have to step outside of yourself to see life with other eyes.

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In love, the self is, piece by piece, transplanted into the world.

Zygmunt Bauman

Pain is the compass of life.

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Someone once said that the human being is capable of overcoming everything… But should we really overcome everything?

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We must never allow ourselves to be persuaded except by the evidence of reason.

Rene Descartes

Here, democracy is relative; corruption, absolute and justice, non-existent…

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Habit… is the great guide of human life.

David Hume

Sometimes, what bothers us in the other, concerns ourselves more than the other.

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Life produces experiences, but it is the way we live that will produce wisdom.

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In hell, the hottest places are reserved for those who have chosen neutrality in times of crisis.

Dante Alighieri

We are moments, so be intense!

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