Wisdom Quotes - Page 12

Talking is great, but don't ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only anticipating to compete, challenge, or question what is being said. You can miss out on some important wisdom always running your mouth.

Wisdom is the ultimate blooms of a tree we call life.

Moon reveals it's beauty in darkness to illuminate the world with the light of love. When humanity suffers, let us be like the moon.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.

Without shame, without conscience.

The bond of love, we unite the world.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

What sort of charge against old age is the nearness of death, when this is shared by youth?Yes, you will say; but a young man expects to live long; an old man cannot expect to do so.Well, the young man is a fool to expect it. For what can be more foolish than to regard the uncertain as certain, the false as true? An old man has nothing even to hope. ' Ah, but it is just there that he is in a better position than the young man, since what the latter only hopes he has obtained:The one wishes to live long; the other has lived long.And yet! what is 'long' in a man's life? For grant the utmost limit: let us expect an age like that of the king of the Tartessi, who reigned eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.Nothing seems long in which there is any . last' , for when that arrives, then all the past has slipped away -only that remains which you have earned by virtue and righteous actions.Hours indeed, and days and months and years depart, nor does past time ever return, nor can the future be known.Whatever time each is granted for life, with that he is bound to be content.

Anything built on doubt is rocky.Anything built on fear is shaky.Anything built on hate is unsteady.Anything built on wisdom is trustworthy.Anything built on faith is sturdy.Anything built on love is mighty.

You are not responsible for anybody elses life or happiness, don't ever feel guilty for being happy! ‪

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.

A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

We are one at the root - we just part at the branch

If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

May the resurrection power of Christ, awake in us a greater spiritual force and strength, so that we can passionately pursue our God-given dreams.

Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain…your thoughts…your ideas…engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.

Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Rain does not fall on one tree.

A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.

Your thoughts and feelings together create an ‘energetic blueprint’ that is constantly being emitted out into the world.

Every morning is bright, beautiful, and gorgeous like the sun, but we can't see it because we are blinded by day to day tasks.

I have attended weddings, with chipped nail paints.I have worn same blue denim for days in a row.I have not followed etiquette sometimes, I was too happy to bother.I have picked up fights, ugly ones too.I have been notorious because I stood up for myself.I have flaws. I am flawed.But I have come to realize,It’s okay to life a life others don’t understand.My life should be my LIBERATION,Not anyone’s REGULATION.

Life can't be rushed. It takes time to develop the wrinkles of wisdom.

It’s okay to experience the flow of all emotions; however, if we get caught up in feeling pity for others and take on the responsibility of being their ‘savior’, we often take away their power to ‘save’ themselves. If I see someone as ‘messed up’ then I am projecting my ‘messed up’ vibration onto them, so I am unable to hold space. Yet, if I already view them as whole, well, and beautiful – then I am able to be a vibrational key (vessel of Spirit) that uplifts their energy so that it may come into alignment with being whole, well, and beautiful. It’s not that I do any of the healing; I’m simply a mirror reflecting acceptance and loving them for exactly who they are, right where they are. That is all that is ever truly asked of us, to accept and to love.

Every day comes with a host of opportunities but also distractions. You need to develop good judgement in the decisions and choices you make.

We must not lose our trust in the power of kindness.

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands.

The spirit of volunteerism is the spirit of service.

I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was only seeing a tiny bit of it, but it was bigger than anything I'd ever seen or felt before.

I have graduated to the extent of not asking what is happening in my life because I trust the maker(God).

Little is the imagination of the person who believes that the future of another may be determined by his/her past. We are so much more than our minds and our memories! We are in fact transcendent souls. If you determine what is ahead by what you can see when you look back, then you will in fact never behold what actually stands in front of you.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Youthought to lengthen your own life and to shorten theirs,but you cannot do this. Life knows neither time norspace. The life of a moment, and the life of a thousandyears: your life and the life of all the visible and invisiblebeings in the world, are equal. To destroy life, or to alterit, is impossible; for life is the one thing that exists. Allelse, but seems to us to be.

Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Do all the work you while you still have strength.

One BIG thing you overlooked when setting out on living the adventure of being wealthy was that you overlooked your current reality!

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.

Never pursue happiness, just create the happiness inside you.

...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..

Somewhere along the length of time, while we are busy numbering our days, we forget to make them count.

Life’s challenges are inevitable. We have to prepare mentally by renewing our mind with inspiration daily to be able to cope when the situation arise.

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

Everyone is entitled to making bad decisions from time to time, but the true test is in how you handle things after those decisions have been made.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Happiness is heaven in human heart.

You must be fully awake in the divine journey.

What comes from experience is knowledge,what comes naturally is wisdom.

Life eats life to live.

You are my loveMy source of joyYou are the joy You are the love Every chamber of your heart is like a flower, blooming and blooming Spreading love with the wind of thoughts I am floating in those divinely pure thoughts and feeling the happinessWhen I am in deep love, I gain the power of love, When I feel beloved, I feel divine happiness.

Enthusiasm and passions are the fundamental ingredients of all success.