Wisdom Quotes - Page 122

Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.

...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford

What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil.

Anger always has a reason but love is always the answer.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

you may meet opportunities; you may miss opportunities; you may create opportunities. Opportunities may recur; opportunities may be equivalent but not equal. For the sake of the vicissitudes of life and the mutability of time, watch your time

Our miseries are inseparable, so is our every single blessing.

No matter what you say to someone else, you always hear it first.

I believe that women ought to be more proactive about making choices in life. I think that I am not happy about seeing women take the passenger's seat and playing the victim game all too often. If you know a guy is engaged, don't kiss him! There is another woman in the situation whom you are hurting and that other woman could have very well been you, your sister, your mother! If someone is committed, don't sleep with him! There is another woman in the picture that is going to get hurt and that other woman is your sister, just because she is a woman too! This is the kind of proactive I want to see in women, everywhere. We're not victims of the choices that we make; we made those choices! Is another woman doing good? More successful? Happier? Good for her. Because she is your sister and she could very well be you. Let's respect the relationships, the personal paths, the doors and the walkways of our fellow women and let us wish one another the utmost happiness. Because this is the only way up and out.

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

Every strict progression of an uncertain event is cease of movement in time and a birth of new space.

No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

Do you know that you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, goodness, provisions, opportunities? But if you don't know how to turn the blessing into praise, it will turn into pride and your life will never be filled with joy because your heart has holes in it.

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Think your best thoughts every moment, every day. You will be the best person on the way.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

Burn, burn, burn to become the light,to enlighten the whole world.

Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.

Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success.

Let’s forget the past and keep in mind the future, but enjoy the present moment.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

We always will have some differences but still we could be happy and peaceful if we learn to love each other.

There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!

In modern time slowness is new sickness.

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

You must have a vivid imagination of what you seek.

Love and Compassion – these are the greatest education a person can ever have.

To achieve any success we have to endure some pain.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

If my friend asks me to sit in a temple belonging to a God that I do not know, because he needs a friend to sit with him, I will be happy to sit there in the foreign temple. Because the temple itself is an outer container only. What is the true religion? What is the inner oil contained by that outer container? The inner oil is the friendship I share with my friend. The true religion is being there to sit beside my friend. If I cannot do this for my friend, then how am I worthy to sit in any temple, whether belonging to a God that I know or to a God that I don't know? If there is no inner oil within my soul, I do not deserve to sit in any temple. Religion is the friendship within the heart, not the place where we sit on a holy day. Religion is the oil within the lamp, not the metal container we see as the lamp.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body

When in doubt, choose to live.

Thinking can be done best when you’re in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration.

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.

Be first the master of yourself