Wisdom Quotes - Page 162

The eye, though small, sees remarkable things.The ear, though small, hears remarkable things.The hand, though small, carries remarkable things.The foot, though small, transports remarkable things.The tongue, though small, utters remarkable things.The mind, though small, perceives remarkable things.The heart, though small, contains remarkable things.The soul, though small, experiences remarkable things.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Love can't exist without happiness. Happiness can't be spontaneous without love.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.

The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on.

On the surface of Life, you walk, talk, act, play but you live only when truly in contact with your Souls, you live only when truly sad, only when truly happy. Sadness and happiness are different faces of the same coin, different ways of understanding the same truth. The sadness though, also brings the self-destruction, it tortures minds, carrying diseases and sometimes darkness.

They that pursue their dreams unrelentingly with tenacity and the right attitude never continue to live with dreams forever. They live their dreams and realize their aspirations.

Wisdom is disguised inside the face of ‪failure”‬

To have more, give moreTo be happy, love more.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet.

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

Don't give a gift with expectation to get but if you have got a gift always try to give.

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you.

When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership

Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.

My heart is not available for hurt.

Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.

Time is the source of greatness

As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

Life just happens, Alice. What makes us special is how we react to it.

Holy solitude, Holy peace.

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

Hell is not a place, but a state of mind born from stress. Hell holds our insecurities, our fears, and it is ultimately the domicile of the devil within. The devil breathes and thrives in the fragment of our hearts that we dare not visit; yet, we can only make peace with ourselves by diving into the pits of hell and having an honest conversation with the devil himself.

The weak can never fall in love because love is an adventure.

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not?

Sometimes the only way to gain someones favor is to stop giving them yours.

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice.

We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

Real loved one's aren't afraid, and will suggest to you, what's in your best interest because they wouldn't want too see you suffer the consequences of, sideways, emotional impulse(s). To see you crash and burn, time after time, is the gratification of 'yes folk' lurking in your corner. You may not agree, but always consider the voice(s) that have consistently kept it real.

My mother used to tell me, every time we were watching Cinderella, that Cinderella had the best attitude and that I should strive to be just like her. Later when I grew up, I resented my mother for teaching me that way, as I saw it as the reason why I often felt preyed on by people who were much more like the ugly stepsisters. But now, all of a sudden, I’ve realized that what my mom meant was that no matter how ugly people can be to you, no matter how rough they treat you, no matter how much their actions tempt you to become your worst— you should overcome them by never letting them steal your gentleness. People only win when they are able to take away your gentleness, your sweetness. But if you remember that you’re a princess, and they’re just not, at the end of the day you win! Still, my mom should have pointed me in the direction of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Cinderella is fine, but had she taught me that Belle was the best way to be, I would have probably never grown to resent that. Belle always retained her gentleness but she could still beat up a pack of wolves at the same time and that’s the kind of princess I wanted to be like! Not to mention she loved books!

Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.

Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things.

God gave you purpose, the devil can’t stop it, so the person in the mirror must choose success or failure. Choose success!

He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen’s crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, ‘when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse than ignorance.

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment.

Let him who thinks war is a glorious, golden thing, who loves to roll forth stirring words of exhortation, invoking honour and praise and valour and love of country … Let him but look at a little pile of sodden grey rags that cover half a skull and a shin-bone and what might have been its ribs, or at this skeleton lying on its side, resting half crouching as it fell, perfect that it is headless, and with the tattered clothing still draped round it; and let him realize how grand and glorious a thing it is to have distilled all youth and joy and life into a fetid heap of hideous putrescence! Who is there who has known and seen who can say that victory is worth the death of even one of these?

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young.

When we fail we pursue the success.When we succeed we party.

Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality.

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time.

Take a closer look at the word "Change". You never "Changed", instead, you were 'Manipulated' by illusion.

Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.

The longest path leads to the destiny destination.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?