Wisdom Quotes - Page 108

Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.

Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Don’t fall in love with the idea of someone being in love with you; fall in love with a person. Don’t fall in love with the idea of being in love with someone else; fall in love with a person. Don’t fall in love with a concept, an idea, a theory... don’t fall in love with a list on a paper. Fall in love with a person. Always, always, it must be the person.

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events.

If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.

Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience.

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness.

Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.

You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.

Manifest kindness to embrace greatness.

All work done with love is healing work.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.

New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out of negative motivation, negativity is furthered. "We can recondition ourselves to act with wisdom. The important thing to understand here is that you are not a victim. You are your own master. 'As you sow, so shall you reap.

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

We cannot dim another person’s light without first extinguishing our own.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

At this time in history, sick, afraid, and despondent are the general conditions that affect the majority of poeple almost everywhere. It's difficult and challenging to follow the call of conscience when we're under the dark veil of these forces. At the same time, it's painful not to follow it.When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. You can't force them to do what you'd like them to do against their will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.I am hopeful because I have witnessed this change throughout my life. From the realization of what I really am, I became hopeful, courageous, and passionate for life, and I felt responsible for the general condition of humanity and the Earth because they are not separate from me.

Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do?Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?

When you are beloved and express gratitude like the fragrance of a beautiful flower, you are happy.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

Papers ,Always Welcome you with an Emty space to full it ,they wont judge or Mind...

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

We aren’t afraid of what we can explain.

When question ariseBelieve or not to believeAlways believe.

It takes a very long time to become young.

What a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived his life following his religion, were to find out that there is no Heaven and no Hell and that all souls just go out and back to the places where they came from, finally free from the monsters that hung onto their backs while they were in this world! And what a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived life with no thought of her own soul, were to find out that some souls go to some place wonderful and some souls go to some place horrible! But what a shame it would be, for anyone, to live a life here on this Earth full of fear, void of freedom and happiness, meaningless and empty, due to either the probability of Heaven and Hell or the absence thereof! So what is really true, is that you and I have bones in our bodies and have flesh under our skin and we ought to live this life right here in such a way that creates Heaven on Earth and puts Hell far away.

Clear skies do not promise rain.

Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.

A loner by nature and an introvert... i am a twinkling star, burning bright amidst a cloudless night. As such, i tend to fade in and out of people's lives. This aspect of me is often misunderstood as rejection or a lack of love and caring. In reality, the only way i can survive as an introvert, is to drop from the sky, from time-to-time, recharging within the energizing landscape of my inner-universe. To love me, is to let me me have the space i need to illuminate the sky. I can't be taken hostage or held captive. Inner-light is what gives my star its twinkle.

Worry has never solved a problem.

Be true to yourself so you never regret anything you did.

If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.

It is very interesting how humanity has linked love to the lack of freedom. I think that when you find love, it is because you have become so free that you were able to truly find it. Love is a wild and running thing. Only the free can find what is wild and running. You become so free, that you are able to truly love. A life of bondage is a life lived without love.

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

Self-master is the greatest success.

The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals!

You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

Never raise your voice but raise yourself and your passion for love and life.

Missing HomeSometimes when we may experience a feeling of nostalgia, and a longing for our Home, it does not really mean that our Home is somewhere out there in the stars. It means that we start remembering our own divine Self. We miss, it and we want to be reconnected to what is truly ours. We always can, at any moment, turn to our hearts. When we raise the feeling of gratitude and appreciation for who we are, we know we are at Home.

Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick