Wisdom Quotes - Page 13

When someone hurts you, hates you, don't hate him, win him with love; you will find the peace.

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Even the most aware of us do not realize the infinite power we possess or the magnitude of the ability we have to create, transmute, and transcend.

I don't beg for those things which can be earned.

Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Enjoy without injury, live without loss.

For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.

You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can't help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Life must not be lived only to make money.

Being married or being in a close relationship is not based on how quickly you can get offended but on how you are ready to drop the offences, get over it and move ahead.

I am trying to get lost in me.To dream, to feel, to see, to be.

Don't speak thoughtlessly.Don't worry unnecessarily.Don't work half-heartedly.Don't spend recklessly.Don't give begrudgingly.Don't act self-centeredly.Don't live short-sightedly.

…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

My friend, be careful what labels you take as truth in your life. It doesn't matter who speaks negative labels over your life, don't give them that power over you. It only matters what You take as truth in Your life! You are a magnificent unique masterpiece of the universe. Go forward and be great, strong, and powerful!- Inshan Meahjohn

Love and learn from everyone,but follow your heart,and your inner conviction.

Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.

Simplicity is the best wisdom.

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.

The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love.

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

Never forget to see the beauty, even in ugliness.

Even if you think you are thinking and acting globally, there is always more to learn and know!

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

To live without love, is to have no light.

The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom.

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

Life is magical! You are magic!

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

Wisdom : balance between survival, principles and emotions.

Use what you have or risk losing it.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Experience is never at bargain price.

In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many areas he does not look at something and then detach from it, and look at something else.Once he has found something to interest himself in, he cannot detach himself from it efficiently, and therefore he cannot be objective. Note that, in most if not all languages, we have words like 'objectivity' which leads people to imagine that they have it, or can easily use it. That is equivalent (in reality if not in theory) to saying 'I know the word “gold”, so I am rich.

Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe’s collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life’s experience.

When you are seeking love, love is seeking you.

...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

The deaf cannot hear wind,but can feel its touch.The blind cannot see the sun,but can feel its warmth.

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.