Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

If you wish to be and remain successful, invest a minimum of five to ten per cent of your income each month and your time each day on your personal growth and development.

Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence.

Wise men speak only of what they know

Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

People may forget the quantity of your works but cannot forget the quality of your works.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

The Awakening Land" p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, "You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else." Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved.

If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

Challenges are part of life;We weaken our spirit, when we act in fear and lose hope.But we strengthen our spirit, when we fearlessly with faith and hope, rise up to meet and conquer the challenges.

Small truths have greater power than big lies.

Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul!

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

Life is a sacred spark of divinity.

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it.

You are born with a crown.Create your own kingdom!

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

When you share your knowledge, you gain wisdom. Share as much as you can and as often as you can.

Walking under Dusk, Moonlit leaf shadows were cast on my skin from the trees above, every step I took was taking a step deeper into magic. Silent whispers of mystical mouthes pulling me in deeper. Then the lights from inside the house turned on. A few seconds later, the fence lights went on. Just like that, the leafy ghosts on my skin ran away and the faery voices ran home. It seems like the creations of man kill magic in so many ways— even the light bulb does this! Oh to be a race of people designing magical things, if someone could capture pieces of Moonlight and place it in a jar; or other things like that, then we could stop killing the magic and be filled with it instead. Or maybe we are already always filled with it. It's the bringing out that we have trouble with. Stop being a doorknob, darling! Be magical, instead!

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,

Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

Readiness for action is the root of all kingly duties. Listen to the verse sung by Vrihaspati: By exertion the amrita was obtained, by exertion the asuras were slain and by exertion Indra obtained sovereignity in heaven and on earth. The heroes of exertion are superior to the heroes of speech. The heroes of speech gratify the heroes of exertion.

Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Focus on lack and you will always struggle to create enough money.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence.

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love.

Time is a rare resource and must be invested wisely

I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion.

In a world of sleepwalkers an awakened mind is a teacher and a catalyst for new awakenings, whether they want to be or not.

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

Creating means living.

If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changingcircumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope.

We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.

The biggest mistake that parents make, is believing that their assigned task in life is to teach their children and to guide them in every situation of their children's lives. The truth is that it is the task of parents to both learn from their children and to guide them as well. Parenting is a relationship that goes both ways, from the moment your child is born, you learn from that person, and in fact, your lessons begin long before your child's lessons do. Later on, when you've learned a great deal already, then they begin to learn from you. Throughout our lives, it is a give-and-take relationship, in many ways. Our assigned task is to learn from our children, and to guide and teach them. Their assigned task is to learn from us, and also to teach us.

Without poetry, love has no exuberance.

When in love or inspired,An eternal kiss from the divineAwaits us all.

You’ll live your life at the least common denominator of those you spend the most time with if you are not watchful.

Everybody has dreams and goals. All you have to do is dig them up.

Words and actions will separate a wise man from the crowd.

Every lost thing can be found from the same place where it lost

Wisom is inseparable from knowledge; it is knowledge plus a quality which is within the human being. Without it, knowledge is dry, almost unfit for human consumption, and dangerous to application.

You must be wise and act with wisdom

Find out what makes you happy and do it. If you are happy, you bring happiness for the world.

First knowledge is the knowledge of God.

Love is the ultimate creator.

To be a great success get busy with what you like but don't forget to love.