Wisdom Quotes - Page 107

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.

What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.

Grandparents are extremely rich folks with silver in their hair and gold in their hearts.

If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass.

Feeding a lion will not prevent it from feeding on you.

You're looking for the light,ForgettingYou have an astonishing light,inside you,which can enlighten the whole world.

Nurture your great spirit for a great self.

Power is not powerful without wisdom.

[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man.

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.

Knowledge is learning something from every observation wisdom is learning to use that knowledge with love.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

To know is to memorize.To understand is to utilize.The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness.The accumulation of wisdom is experience.

Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.

The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it.

When you love someone, be sure that you will be loved in return.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

When you have the ability to dream, you have the capability to do.

I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

There is no wall strong enough that love and kindness can't reach through.

When we are able to see the choices we make through the eyes of self-acceptance, we are transformed.

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

Put all your pain on a piece of paper, write it all down, every experience, every ache, every hurtful moment. Then take a match, and set fire to that piece of paper. All the hurt you have inside you is burning just as it burnt inside of you, until it is completely gone. From this moment forward you are free. Nothing can harm you. No past. No present. No future. You are reborn into water, and nothing in the entirety of this world can set fire to water, nor crush it. Whatever pressures you face, you will float. Whatever tries to sink you, you will rise up. Today, right now, in this moment, you are a warrior. Now smile, it will set fire to those who sought to burn you...

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

A seed today is a forest tomorrow.

Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.

Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field of enterprise and in all walks of life.

Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.

Secret glances are shared by those on the "inside" or esoteric "inner circle", who have literally gone into many lower frequencies simultaneously. This is the "secret glance" of love, which allows the higher to operate in the lower; to "save" those worlds in order to correct the impending takeover of the "Devil and his demons", a metaphor for light and dark "battles" raging today.

The blind cannot see light,but can feel its warmth.The deaf cannot hear sound,but are aware of its power.

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures & wisdom progresses.

The precious gems are hidden, it is not easy to find them.

Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him.

A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Goals help you look towards the future with anticipation and excitement rather than with anxiety, and when clearly defined and broken into smaller steps, they enable you pay the price needed to achieve your dreams.

Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on that ending, rather than on the beautiful story that was created before the end came. We are obsessed with endings, so much so, that we would rather not live at all, than live and then lose. So, we have two choices: to not create our stories because we know that one day they have endings, or, to build our stories and therefore to live, filling the many years with memories and moments! An end takes one day to happen, but life takes place in the moments and in the memories that we choose to feel, to build, to hold. Don't miss out on the years, for the fear of one day.

When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver.

Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own misfortunes or those of others as a source of doubt or criticism of the infinite mercy of the Gohonzon.-Josei Toda