Wisdom Quotes - Page 133

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

The ways of the heart are complex.” He looked out at the ocean again. “The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man’s undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you.

An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.

God never leaves His children to wander alone. We are always surrounded with unconditional love.

Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. ...those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.

Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.

A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns.

You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing.

If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah”)

It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.

¿Preguntas cúal es el fundamento de la sabiduría? No gozarte en cosas vanas.

It is better to love than expecting love.

The term “musalman” refers to someone with “musallam iman”, that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

hapIf you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.You cannot truly know strength without weakness.You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.You cannot truly know hope without despair.

Wise men don't feel companionless when they are not in the company of their egos.

Invest your time in producing product or service

Go according to your curiosity.

Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

We wait expectantly for what we hope for.

There will be no enemy if we overpower them with love.

Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God.

To be sure, just because the darkness and the light are equally sacred does not mean we benefit by becoming complacent about the darkness we may meet in ourselves. Ultimately, if we are to cleanse the mirror of perception and purify ourselves, then we must bring light into the darkness. That’s always been the path of consciousness and the movement of illumination. This coexistence of darkness and light indeed creates a dance in which the clarity of light is invited to lead, but it does not create a hierarchy.

It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.

Being alive is sign of strength!

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Without love, life is unsustainable.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Sometimes we want God to use us to do big things when we would not even want to do the basics.

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Go for the life you dream and desire with boldness but without fear.

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography)

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.

It is the possibility of the dream, which quickens my spirit to take action.

There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?

When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, butencourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of hissoul, refreshed by water.

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

Consistency is the difference between game excellence and an excellent game. Successful people do consistently what the others do occasionally.

Today is the best day to change the rest of your life.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Love with your heart, not with your mind, mind is judgmental, but heart is not.

Accepting defeat is not wisdom.

Your vision helps the world identify you at the appropriate time.

​The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.

If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

Spring time is nature at its best.

Healthy home, healthy life.

Negative situations can never overwhelm a positive mind.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.