Wisdom Quotes - Page 135

She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle, but she would not fall until she knew he deserved her.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

Only those who row the boat make waves

The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.

Your beliefs frame your thoughts and actions. If you change your beliefs, you change your reality.

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by Robert Gately

Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness.

when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder

The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dusk! When your energy goes down, something goes down. We can do anything with our energy but not all things deserve our true energy! We have, all of us, a choice to choose where our energy must go when day breaks. We can choose to allow anything at all take our energy, but we must not forget that where our energy goes, from there comes something to us; something good or something bad, something mediocre or something noble, something that will disturb us or something that will enhance our joy, latently or visibly, now or tomorrow. We must always remember each day that same energy that is exerted on wrong things to attract and produce wrong things can be exerted on good things to produce good and great things!

A proof once established is better left so.

Your dreams will remain just a dream unless you take small and realistic steps towards achieving them.

Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.

When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward

Love is my religion, love is my destiny.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

If you want to conquer fear then you have to put fear on your fears.

Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson]An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its lucidity and moderation, its wit and wisdom. It may now seem old-fashioned, but during those confused alarms of struggle and fight between the ignorant armies of left and right, thousands of readers must have taken inspiration from Richard Robinson's rational defence of rationalism.It is a pity that it is now out of print, when there is still so much nonsense and so little sense in the world.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree.

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

I believe that the best leadership is loud authenticity. That is what the world needs now. We don’t need more plastic, Photoshooped perfection. I don’t want people to look at me and wish they could be me. I want people to look at me and see their own potential. I want people to be more accepting of their own failures, imperfections, and struggles because they watch me accept of my own.

We are being prepared daily for a greater task. Every training should be passionately pursued.

Morality and righteousness is based on intent, love, and in giving; yet, how is it that we as humans have come to view the act of sex with a different set of arbitrary laws? Specifically pigeonholed as an act between man and women, and with righteousness based on an unsystematic number of people we have slept with; as a civilization we have come to bind society with a set of laws largely advantageous to a specific sex, with the minority heavily antagonized and chastised. The universe knows not what sexual morality is, only what is right and wrong. The same principles that dictate morals also command the virtues of sex. Is it with the right intent? Is it based on love? Is it based on giving?

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us

Accept losing but never give up the hope of winning

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

Ask yourself if I'm capable of contradictions, Draupadi.Some missions succeed only by their spectacular failure. - Krishn

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.

Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again.

I don’t want to go to heaven. I want to transform the earth to be heaven.

Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.

The act of living is a revolutionary right.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Money can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold.

Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

When we will learn to use the power of love to win the war, universal peace and happiness will be there.

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

You can see a person without using your eyes,hear a person without using your ears,carry a person without using your hands,speak to a person without using your mouth,and move a person without using your feet.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Only by spending and investing love you can get it back. You are adorned with unlimited love, so spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

I love you not because you are perfect, but because I find you inside myself.

We might have a different height and different color.But we all have parents, so we are brother and sister.We all have a different goal and a different vision.We all like to live in peace and that is our mission.We like to share our love and the world with each other.We like to live in harmony, trust, and peace forever.

In the dark , everything is scary