Wisdom Quotes - Page 157

Love is the ecstasy of life.

To live a worthy life, just love. Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile.

If life is a flower, then love is the beauty of that flower.

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The more you give, the more you will have to give.

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way.

Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared.

Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principal thing". This means it's the number one thing ever that you cannot bypass and expect to succeed!

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy!

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illness or defect, not to be processed or understood, or in some cases even embraced, but to be ‘treated’ and ‘cured’ by any means possible—often with drugs that may be doing much more harm than good. This biological reductiveness, along with the stigma that it attracts, shapes the person’s interpretation and experience of his distress or deviance, and, ultimately, his relation to himself, to others, and to the world. Moreover, to call out every difference and deviance as mental disorder is also to circumscribe normality and define sanity, not as tranquillity or possibility, which are the products of the wisdom that is being denied, but as conformity, placidity, and a kind of mediocrity.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

When the truth is dispensed it is for the good of all, always.

Life changes therefore think of change when change is a must. Change such things which you have to change when you have to change things for the longer you think of changing things, the more things keep changing. The best tomorrow is today! Be swift and think of change!

Wisdom is the knowledge of the gospel truth.

The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names – as words – have power, not inherently, but because we give it to them.

All of life is a ceremony where we get to know and explore our wholeness.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Worship the work not the God, because work is God.

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

Love as a flower loves the morning sun.Love with kindness, expect no return.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Motivating others leads to success whereas inspiring others leads to greatness.

A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.

Keep hope alive to be happy.

Because if works doesn't mean that it's right, once can be successfully wrong~Dad to his Son...(Psalms 37:7)

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

The more we abide in Christ, the more His grace and power transform us into His image.

From language to no-language is the journey and certainly every master has to use lies to attract you, to make you aware of your mindlessness, your stupidity. That's why I tell you to relish this very moment, and when you squeeze out the juice of every moment, then you will realise that there is nothing worthy in this world, then for the first time you start turning IN-wards, not otherwise!

Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing.

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

You might fear you don’t have what it takes, but you don’t need to have all the answers or everything figured right from the start.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.

Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.

The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.

We will never be more that we have been destined to be!

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.