10 Philosophical Quotes that we must apply in our life

Philosophy can really be an immense help if we can apply them in our life. Sometimes philosophical notions on how to live only left as a notion and never having applied them. There were only a less number of people who have been educated applying the philosophy of life. There is numerous way for us to live life in accordance with the reality and on the reality of life but the problem is; they were only left in the books and the world have never realized them. Even if we haven’t heard and learned them fully; we still thank those people who have learn them by way of experience and shared them to the world. When they shared them to the word and it then positively inspire numerous number of people to apply them in their own lives. It changes them and changed the world dramatically for the reason that we were always being shaped by philosophy without us knowing them.

For that reason, I wanted to list down these philosophical notions in a form of a quote coming from those people who have learned them not just by books but on their own experience.

1. We are not perfect and we need to accept them.
   The positive way of being imperfect is on having our motivation for us to hope and learn how to improve ourselves by our own efforts and approach. Apart of being imperfect is committing mistakes and it is always a part of us being a person. But we can never be measured by our own mistakes but by our own way of fixing our mistakes. Sometimes we may not fix some of our mistakes accordingly but what is important is on making an effort correcting them. We can never be perfect but there is always a room for us to improve our selves and become a better person.
   “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong (Joseph Chilton Pearce)”

2. We must never give-up
   Even if we are not perfect we must still find reason for us to go-on with our life. We must never give up and we must find hope even in the simplest ways that we could. We must keep trying until we can find reason for us to solve our problems. There is HOPE because it is meant for us to use. We never fail only if we keep on trying and we only loss if we stop finding ways to solve them.
   “You never fail until you stop trying (Albert Einstein)”

3. We must be positive and must not lose hope
   We can never overcome such difficulties if we never tried to face them. It is also true that we can never know the real burden of difficulties if we turn back from them and never tried to face them.
   “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly (Isaac Asimov)”

4. We must have a dream and make it as a goal for us to achieve
   Our goal would always define us. It will define us on how we are moved to achieve them and if we really have that desire to achieve them or if we really care of achieving them. We can always dream the highest dream that we want but not those unrealistic dreams. Sometimes it will take us years and years of journey before we can achieve them. Often we loss hope because we have worked for them and have never achieved them yet. We get discourage because we are getting older and older but we still haven’t yet achieved them and if we achieved them we would think that it would be the last dream that you could have because you no longer have that time for you to achieve them the next year of your life. But our age is not a hinders for us to have another dream because we could always have as many dreams as we want it.
   “You are never too old to set a goal or to dream a new dream (Aristotle)”

5. Always love and be loved
   If we fall in love, we always wanted to be loved back. It is just but an ultimate satisfaction if we could perfectly achieve them and there can never be no other things that would make us happy rather than finding a perfect love relationship. Love deeply moves us and inspire us to achieve the ultimate goal of our life; which is to be happy. Being loved gives us strength as to face life and to overcome them out of its power that could conquer all. Loving someone gives us courage as to do more and to give more to the one we love. This courage will help us achieve everything we want to the one we loved and to give everything to her/him; “love gives us courage.” Let us always love and be loved for us to gain courage and strength to live this wonderful life of ours.
   “Being deeply loved gives you strength; loving deeply gives you courage (Lao Ztu)”

6. We must always have a reason to be happy because happiness lies in the way we think.
   What is happiness? A lot of us define happiness on the things we want. In that way, there can be numerous definition on what is happiness. But how can we achieve happiness? We know the things that would make us happy but the method on happiness is still a mystery. How can we achieve happiness? Will I be happy if I can achieve them? Those are some of the question that runs into our mind every time we are asked about happiness.

On the contrary, The Buddha suggest that we can still be happy at any time of the day. There is no need to achieve those things that we want and finding a perfect method in order to achieve them. Happiness will not be defined on the things we have, the money we have gained and on the fame we have achieved. Those are just but an illusion of happiness and a cause of suffering. Genuine happiness is on the way we think and on the way we appreciate life.
Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think (Buddha)

1. We must always learn how to give
   We cannot give if we do not have something to give. But that is not applicable in giving charity because we can give anything out of charity. Sometimes we opt not to give something to others because we are thinking that we might loss something that might help us soon. Other give too much out of letting everyone know that he/she is charitable and faking the act of giving. Giving is not about the things that we give but on the value and love that we put into something that we give. Those things that we are not using doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to those who need them. Therefore, we must give them to those who need them and let us not just give things we must give love out of the things that we are giving.
   “If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one… It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving (Mother Teresa)"

2. We must not be easily affected on how others behave towards us.
   We become happy if other is happy and angry if others were angry. We get affected by those who are around us and behave according to the effect brown by others toward us. Sometimes we wanted to please others and we started to act differently according to what we think others might want us to be. We tried to change to ourselves just to please them and in turn we are just making ourselves for worst. We too focus on others behavior that it destroys our inner peace and on who we really are. But we must not be affected by those behavior of others and let us be our true self; our one and only self. Let us not change for worse but for good.
   Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace (Dalai Lama)

3. We must be that Change
   From the time in the memorial people wanted to really change the world. We wanted to change the world according to what we want and recommending a world that would greatly benefit our self. But the problem is; we wanted the world to change without changing ourselves. We wanted to change the world but we wanted to remain ourselves as what it is. The world is formed for what it is because of the people living in the world. It became what it is because of the people’s core nature, mentality and actions. That is why if we wanted to change the world; we must be ready to change ourselves. If we can change ourselves, we can also change the world; it will just follow without us knowing it.
   “Be the change you want to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi)”

4. Make life as simple as it is
   Having a decent life is an integral part of our life as we live in a society full of demands and needs that manipulates us to ensure the unnecessary burdens and forget those valuable matters that would make us happy. We are being impressed by those unnecessary demands of the society and forget the demands of a real life. Those demands of the society are those material things and money that we really long for and forgetting the demands of being happy out of those things that we have gained. Those demands made the simplicity of our life complicated. Life is just simple and happiness can be achieving only in a simple way. Let us just learn to appreciate the simplicity of life and live with it.
   “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated (Confucius)”

END NOTE: Philosophy is indeed vast and the 10 of them is just but a few wisdoms that philosophy can demonstrate to all of us. The vastness of philosophy covers everything that makes us as a being and as a person to other and to the world. Well, we must really thank those individual who have shared their wisdom to us. The dispensing of their wisdom is really an excessive help to our existence. Some of them might not know to be a recognized philosopher or have studied philosophy but all of us can be a philosopher by our own selves.