...Everybody has a different view on the world. All citizens have a different opinion on how people should act and what traits make a good person. Some one might consider loyalty, honesty and tolerance to be very important. I agree that these traits are vital, but I believe that the ability to be optimistic is the most essential trait. I also think having a sense of humor and a smile is very important. Voltaire once said “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboat.”This is one of my favorite quotations. Human existence isn’t flawless, but why should we dwell on the imperfections of life when we can smile at the almost faultless. I believe that life is too short to waste on negativity. Being positive means looking out the window at a thunderstorm and saying “This is good, the plant will be watered” or “don’t worry, it will clear up.” I consider myself to be very positive; I always look at the bright side of a bad situation. This is one of the keys to my happiness. If you look up the definition for laugh in a dictionary, it would say “to make sounds from the throat while breathing out in short bursts or gasps as a way of expressing amusement.” Laughter is much more than that. It is like a cure for cancer or an umbrella in the rain. Laughter can shield you from the harmful rays of grief, if exposed to these rays you are at risk of a frown and/or tears. I believe comedians are the true doctors of this world. They give you a free prescription every time you...
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...Nowadays, in the XXIst century people are living life of the constant pursuit for money, successful career, what is making impression that only those values are important. Than they have to stop for a while and contemplate about their life goals, their life philosophy. This essay will present my philosophy of life. First of all, the most important thing for me is my family. According to my rules, they are always on the first place, and can count on me, just the same like I can count on them. I was raised by my parents to be a good man who tries to be always kind and helpful for the other people and live in harmony with commandments of my religion. The next thing about my philosophy of life is a proper attitude what means that I have a lot of faith in myself and I am taking challenges with believing in final success. Optimism is very important in man’s life and we cannot forget about it, because it helps in bearing up with difficulties. Having friends is also important; however, the point is to choose wisely and surround yourself with well-wishing and loyal people which won’t stab you in the back when you will need help. My philosophy of life tells that I always have to be myself and listen to my heart as much as I listen to my mind and to play along with the voice of my conscience. I believe, that man should develop himself, every time try to experience something new and always use an opportunity to increase his knowledge in order to be conscious and intelligent. Summing up...
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...My Personal Philosophy of life. My Personal Philosophy of life. Philosophy of life will be different between each person. A persons philosophy will vary depending on ones life experience. I believe that no two people will have seen life in the same way. There would be many people that have similar philosophy on life but none of them would be exactly the same. I will share my ideas and thoughts on what is my philosophy of life. The way have experience life has made me change my way thinking more then once, am sure it will change again. What is my purpose in life? What is anybody’s purpose in life? That’s a question that we all deal with, why are we here, what is the point of life? There is the thought that are purpose of life only known by God. That he has chosen it for before we were ever born, and that part of the reason is to be here for someone else. If I would have asked this questions three four years ago I would have answered with, I have no idea. Back then I really had know idea why am here, or what am supposed to be doing. It seem that all I cared about was to go party. I would live with the philosophy of, live one day at a time. I was in the army then and all I worried about was that day, oh payday needed money to party. I didn’t worry about trying to get promoted or move up, that’s what must soldiers strive for. I basically was just trying to skate through life. Things changed in my life that I will get into later. I can know say that the purpose of me being...
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...AN ESSAY ON MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE BY Margaret Omotola Osunrinde tola.osunrinde@yahoo.co.uk Life is beyond a state of physical and biological existence; it is also a platform for self-realization, which is viable by self-determination, improvement and socialization. This is why I ensure to always strive hard and apply the principle of excellence in whatever I do. I know that my motivation would keep me in tune with life dynamics such that the harder I work, the better I score and the more fulfilled I become. Everyone has their own personal outlook on life, but whatever one’s opinion is, excellence is in tandem with life fulfillment as fulfillment results to happiness. Aristotle once expressed that “Happiness is the most desirable thing in the world”. It therefore comes as a result of self fulfillment. As for me, living in excellence is what gives me happiness. If I were to write about the philosophy of my life in the last decade, it probably would have been to “Live life as it comes”. However, in this decade, I have adopted and realized that achieving excellence in whatever one does forms a strong basis for life fulfillment. Excellence is not relative, it requires a lot of hard work and this is the reason behind why quite a number of people would prefer to take shortcuts. To attain the height of excellence requires a price to pay, it is a result of being meticulous, focused, hardworking, determined and highly committed. The word “excellence” has been defined as the quality...
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...My Philosophy I have never lived by one solid philosophy, but rather rose to live by three. I like to believe that all three have different meanings, but in general they basically stand for everything that I think I am made up of. My three philosophies are: work hard, take pride in myself and the accomplishments that I make, and also everyone is on this planet for a reason. The people around are a big role in how you view things. For example, my mother was a dancer, and I am a dancer, but my sister believes that dancing is one of the most disgusting things in the world. This example shows that someone that was raised in the same house as me could view thing depending on their drive for a goal. The first of my three philosophies, to work hard, can be very easily explained. In my few young years of living I’ve come to feel that if money or a gift given to me by another person because I earned the reward is much more valued. In other words, knowing that I worked hard, did a good job, and deserve a reward makes me feel good inside. I also feel that all persons should have to work and support themselves. My grandmother taught me young that, if a person doesn't wish to put forth any effort and work hard to support themselves, then that person deserves nothing. This philosophy that was taught to me showed me that nothing is hand given anything that I want has to be earned. The next of my three philosophies is to take pride in myself and the accomplishments that I make. Not...
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...Guinyard June 29, 2016 HUS 102 B01 Philosophy of Life Philosophy of life will be different between each person. A person’s philosophy will be different depending on one’s life experience. I believe that no two people will have seen life in the same way. There would be many people that have similar philosophy on life but none of them would be exactly the same. I will share my thoughts on what is my philosophy of life. The way I have experience life has made me change my way of thinking more than once, I am sure it will change again. What is my purpose in life? What is anybody’s purpose of life? That’s a question that we all deal with, that’s why we are here, what is the point of life? There is the thought that our purpose of life only known by god. That he has chosen it before we were even born, and that part of the reason is to be here for someone else. If I would have asked these questions some years ago I would have answered with, I have no idea. Back then I really had no idea why I’m here, or what I was supposed to be doing. It seemed that all I cared about was to go party. I would live with the philosophy of, live everyday like it’s your last. I worked part time jobs then and all I worried about was that day, oh payday need money to party. I didn’t worry about trying to get promoted or moving up in the companies, that’s what most people strived for. I basically was just trying to skate through life. Things changed in my life that I will get into later. I can now say...
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...2/21/2015 2/21/2015 James Turner Philosophy-1101 James Turner Philosophy-1101 Philosophy of Life And Other Essays By. B.J. Gupta Philosophy of Life And Other Essays By. B.J. Gupta B.J. Gupta gets right to the point in his book “Philosophy of life”. He does not use outlandish sentences and problematical paragraphs to explain what he is saying. The book starts out by his explanations of philosophy, and Gupta gives two examples of what philosophy meant in the past and what it means nowadays. Back when philosophy was developed a philosopher had been considered a thinker, and it did not matter on what subject. Nowadays, a philosopher is a thinker of non-materialistic subjects like knowledge. Those subjects like science, history, and economics have their own sets of thinkers labelled scientist, historian, economist etc. Gupta is saying that philosophy used to touch on many subjects, and even though these other subjects are not called philosophy, philosophy is in their DNA and always will be. (Gupta, p. 1) Then Gupta gives an example of “Philosophy of Life” he got of the internet, which is “Any philosophical view or vision of the nature or purpose of life or of the way that life should be lived”. (Random House, Inc., 2015) He does not give his own definition on the subject, but he does go on explaining that everyone has his or her own outlook on the philosophy of life, you do not have to be a philosopher to have an opinion on the matter. Some outlooks...
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...My Personal Philosophy Essay People develop and shape their personal philosophy during the whole life. Some circumstances may radically change our views, depending on our age, social status and personal qualities. As for me, at this stage of my life I can’t say it for sure that my personal philosophy is complete and well-shaped. In my research paper I want to express my views on several sides of human life. I’d like to attract attention to such concepts as sense of life and happiness, good and evil, morality and faith in God, love and death, eternal life values, karma and religion. I’ll answer the questions what love and happiness mean for me personally. I understand that the concept of life philosophy is really versatile and it’s hard to express personal views on so many aspects. That’s why my research deals with only those things which are important for me at this stage of my life. If you look at life from different sides for some period of time, and then gather all your thoughts into one picture – that would be your life philosophy. Humans strive to find out and clearly define the sense of their living, and feel unhappy and desperate without it. Each person has his own sense of life and discovers it for himself only. There are people who live their lives without asking what they are living for. Personally I have always been concerned with this question and I think it is important to have at least some slightest peace of sense in life. Sometimes I feel myself broken and empty...
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...MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE I cannot remember as a child asking myself the "why and what" questions about life. What is its purpose and what to do? Why do certain things happen? Why are we here? Why? I may be saying this for I think at this age; I'm living happily, with my family, playing with my friends and neighbors, going to school, and all about kids fun. Hence, living life like what my parents want it to be. However, later on as time passes by, and as I grew older, everything seems to sink in and slowly and slowly, concern and obligation comes to arise, decisions to make and responsibility to take. This responsibility includes those of the personal and social aspects. On a personal point, our obligation is to take care of ourselves, stay healthy and live happily. While socially, I strongly believe in the saying, do unto others, as you would like them to do unto you. Although abiding this rule is quite not easy, but trying to do this has no payment at all, besides, it will help the society to run smoothly as possible without too much strife. For this reason, we as humans are conscious enough to be able to make assessment, evaluation, and realization whether our action is the right one or not. Despite the fact that Life is complex and complicated to define, I understand that everybody has a different vision of Life on the world. All have different opinion and view on how they should act and what traits make a good person. As they say - what would be the point of living...
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...In some ways I’d say it is good to feel pain or else your life is not real, to live life without pain and hardships, makes you lazy and ordinary. No man has ever become great by sleeping all day long. To attain success pain must become a secondary objective and the goal to be achieved primary. Focus is most important, and that is when it does not matter whether you slept 2 hours or 8, or whether you ran 8km or 100m but what is important is whether you have achieved what you set out to do. Having said this we must not set our goals low, in order to gain satisfaction at having achieved it. Our goals must be reasonably high, if you aim for the stars you might at least land on the moon. Richard Branson never imagined that being dyslexic and dropping out of school at a young age would prevent him from reaching where he wanted to. He set his heights on what others would have seen as impossible, but it is this high level of self belief that got him to where he is now. When Ferdinand Piëch laid down 10 parameters in order to manufacture the VW Phaeton, half his engineers walked out believing those parameters were beyond possible. But today we see the Phaeton will all those parameters included, and still making it cheaper than the Mercedes S500. To aim high and dream big is nothing wrong as long as you do not keep dreaming. Motivation, hard work, perspiration are all tools to achieve the impossible. Success comes with 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. To be inspired is not enough...
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...My recommendation for the doctor is that he fully explain the danger of the medicine and liver toxicity but to ultimately prescribe the cholesterol medication. The HMO's needs, cost reduction, don't really merit concern in my opinion, as the HMO is only there to ensure that Jake can get the necessary treatments. The doctor should impress on Jake the seriousness of liver toxicity and the benefits of diet and exercise. However, the doctor could not force Jake to diet and exercise. Jake, having been reasonably educated by the doctor, should be able to make a reasoned decision. Jake clearly considers the toll of diet and exercising to be too much and is willing to risk the liver toxicity. This means that even if the diet and exercise is a better course of action, it will be unsuccessful because Jake will not do it. So the doctor's only course of action is to prescribe Jake the medicine. While it would be preferable for Jake to try dieting and exercising, the duty of the doctor is to preserve the health of the patient while operating within the confines of what the patient is willing to do. While Michael's opinion coincided with my own, Katie contended that the doctor should take a more proactive role in the patient's health. Katie believes that the doctor should not initially prescribe the medication and should first only recommend diet and exercise and, only if his cholesterol is higher, suggest the medication upon his next visit. Katie reached this conclusion when picking over the...
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...heal the sick, or even to just spend the rest of your life with a certain someone. Whether we want to believe it or not, God does have a plan for all of us. The really sad part about it is that we don’t realize until it is too late. For this I truly believe that everyone has a mission to complete throughout their lives. I feel that everyone should take pride in what they do and how they look. If I don’t it is a reflection on how I perceive myself. If I set a goal for myself, but did not reach that goal at least I can be proud of the hard work and effort I did put in, and also in the goals I have met. I respect myself, and I want others to respect me too. I live a normal life and just like everyone else I’m on a pursuit of my own happiness. But I know that I am going to suffer and have to dedicate myself to get there because nothing in this world is that easy to achieve. Education is one of the most important things in our life in order to be successful. I’m in college now and it’s really frightening to know that I still have three years left of school. I know I have to be focused in school and that I have to give all my effort to graduate and get a job. I’m living with my sister now, who is a nurse. She told me that it wasn’t that easy to be where she is now. She had to make some sacrifices and dedicate her whole life in it. My family and my girlfriend is the best and most important people in my life. They always support me and give me advice on everything...
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...Time is life Time is money; time is life, especially in this modern society of ours. It is important not only to businessmen but to people from all walks of life. Punctuality is a habit. We can, if we like, get into the habit of doing things at the right time. But it is not easy to do this. Many people have a tendency for being late for one reason or another. No one likes to wait but we often let people wait for us, don’t we? It is much easier to put things off, and say we will do them tomorrow or next week. Because it is easy to be unpunctual, many of us get into the bad habit of always being late for everything. And once we get into this bad habit, it is every hard to get out of it. An unpunctual person is an enemy to himself, and a nuisance to everyone else. In school, the boy who is always late and behind with his lessons gets into trouble and learns little. An unpunctual clerk soon will lose his job. And a friend who always keeps you waiting may lose your friendship. The idea of punctuality is very important. You lose out on opportunities, respect and time when you are late. To be punctual means to do what you should do on time, and a punctual person is in the habit of doing things at the proper time and is never late for his appointments-which is especially important in the current, fast developing society. To a worker, time is productivity. To students, time is...
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...MY PHILOSOPHY IN LIFE FINAL PAPER IN HUM 2 1.) “Do not worry for tomorrow but worry for today.” -Rosie My philosophy of life has something related to one of the classical philophers named Aristippus on his motto; “Eat, drink, and be merry, tomorrow you will die”. 2.) “If you really want peace in your mind then think peacefully. I believe troubles and worries about everything big or small are just state of mind. If you really wanted to be at peace then live for it. If you worry, you can never have a peaceful moment.” -Rosie My philosophy of life had influenced by one of the nine (9) classical philophers Epictetus mentioning that peace of mind is very important because it makes a life of tranquility, serenity and composure possible. 3.) “Follow your heart and happiness will follow.” -Rosie I had to agree to the philosophy that had believed by one of the very known and influenced philosopher, Aristotle. He has a strong conviction that happiness is the realization of Man’s highest nature. 4.) “There are many times in all of our lives where we find ourselves knowing exactly where and what we should be, yet our world and circumstances through no fault of our own, seems to build walls and barriers to our dreams. –Rosie Zeno of Citium has his own philosophy about virtues. According to him human being is virtuous when they wish that which is willed by God. Living according to reasons and reasons tells us that all that happens must happen in order to actuate a superior willed...
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...Life, Philosophy and Hamlet Hamlet is considered to be one of the most complex characters ever created. Basically, Hamlet is a play about growing up. At the start of the play Hamlet still believes life should be beautiful and perfect and people should be good and honest. He is shocked and angry when he discovers that many people are not good nor honest. He thinks life should have deep meaning but he can find no meaning at all. Trough the play he struggles to accept that life is painful and difficult. All the beautiful things he believed are gradually destroyed and he becomes depressed and suicidal. Hamlet has had many opinions throughout the play about how things in life work out. Hamlet believes that humans are amazing creatures because they are capable of doing so many things. He also believes the world is a beautiful place. To Hamlet though the world seems nothing more than air, “it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.” (Ham.II.ii.301-303) and humans are nothing more than dust “And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” (Ham.II.ii.308) In another speech, Hamlet points out the uselessness of the law and no matter how much you gain in life, it’s not going to mean anything when you die. This is shown when Hamlet said, “The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box” (Ham.V.i.107-108) Hamlet is revealing that you can obtain many material items in life, but ultimately when you die you won’t be able to bring...
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