Wisdom Quotes - Page 185

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson.You have not lost if you have helped one new person.You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle.

Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same time. To do so would have been not only impolite, but foolish; for poise, so much admired as a social grace, could not be accompanied by restlessness. Pauses were acknowledged gracefully and did not cause lack of ease or embarrassment.

There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow.

you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible

Your vibe creates your tribe.

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

Make every day a positive day. Make it joyful and beautiful in every way.

The driving desires of human hearts are to be loved and appreciated.

Life is not defined by what you achieve, but what you give.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Who sees the many and not the one, wanders on from death to death.Even by the mind this truth is to be learned: there are not many but only one. Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from death to death.

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.

Folly and evil are twins;the devil is their father,and wisdom is their enemy.

Imagine, then think, then desire, then dream, then act to achieve and it will be yours.

...hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that your dreams, desires or goals are more important than fear.

The higher the vibration, the more positive the events or people you attract and likewise.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!

The more you learn, the more you want to learn.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.

A crisp, clean $100 bill that is crumbled up, thrown to the ground, stepped on and rubbed in the dirt still maintains its value.Life may crumble you, throw you to the ground, step on you and rub you in the dirt, but you still maintain your value.Just as a crumbled up $100 bill still has purchasing power, your life still has purposeful power; and nothing or no one can ever take that away from you.

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly

Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy.

I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

There's supposed to be more value in your life than spending more than sixty hours in a week in a place you don't care about and in an environment they don't care about you.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart.

But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.

You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

The effective use of time is the best-kept secret of those who have created a successful life and continue to experience it every day.

It’s about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It’s all about divine love.

She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

notable people do notable things for they take notice of the unnoticed.They think beyond our thinking. They look beyond what we all look. They try, fail, and try again.They dare unrelentingly. They don't die with their purpose. They die on their purpose. Though they die, their purpose ever lives.

There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.

I think it will be better if we can live our life as if Christ is going to return today and plan our live as if it is hundred years off. Keep living, serving and most of all be prepared.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself

If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears—not less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social—not just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love—eros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love.

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.