Wisdom Quotes - Page 137

If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.

The most successful individuals and leaders achieve their dreams because they have a clear vision they have committed their life to.

Through you, I see me. Through me, I see you.

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

If believing were simple, then this world wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today.

Be vulnerable! It is not someone else’s responsibility to break down your walls to get to you. It is your responsibility to let them in. This is crucial. Be more vulnerable with people in your life today. Know that being vulnerable is not a weakness – vulnerability means you are strong and secure enough within yourself to walk outside without your armor on.

-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus on what is ahead. Remember however that if you neglect the most essential lessons of the past, you shall walk into the future with one leg.

Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.

Be a person who radiates the fire of love to burn and purify everything around to create the beauty of joy and peace.

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy.

It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.

The real education never ends.

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it.

When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem.

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.

You have the world at your feet if you have wisdom in your mind.You have the world in your hands if you have joy in your heart.You have the world in your bosom if you have love in your soul.

Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.

Life isn't about achieving successBut about creating joy and happiness.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one.

Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication.

Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder.

One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few,your troubles will not be many.

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.

What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?

An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.

A man's heart is small, but it is surrounded by the immensity of its soul. Sometimes our words may appear silent, but they are certainly heading for infinity.

All we are in possession of is the result of the snowballing attitude of our minds.

A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

Love has no monetary value, but it enhances the value of life.

Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

Don’t become bigoted about bigots.

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

Know yourself as you are – particles of start-dust moving through the eternal ocean of time, trying to make whatever little difference you can.

To transform this world into a better place to live, make yourself a better person first.

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there.

The priceless gift of life, strength and time is our greatest wealth.

To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

I talked to my nephew today, he's afraid of the dark. Or was. I said, "Why are you afraid of the dark? In the darkness we find many beautiful things!" He said, "Like what?" And I said, "Like the Moon and the stars! We would never see them without the darkness! And have you ever been to a movie house before? Do you think it would be as fun if it wasn't dark inside? And all the creatures under the sea— they're always there, swimming beautifully in the darkness of the waters!" And he said, "Bad things like ghosts are just fairy tales, right?" Then I told him, "Even if there were ghosts all around, they would not change in the darkness; they would be just the same as they are in the light. Look, we live in a world where there are bad things but there's no difference between these things whether they are in the darkness or in the light! Everything good and bad is always there; what changes is what and when we can see them. And the darkness brings us many beautiful experiences that we wouldn't be able to see in the light." And then I gave him a piece of my son's meteorite stone, I told him that whenever he feels afraid in the dark, he can hold onto it and it should remind him that many beautiful things, like that meteorite, come from the darkness so there's really nothing to ever be afraid of.

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.