Wisdom Quotes - Page 56

Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things. To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know a childish person, is to know a very immature person. To know childlikeness is to know original wisdom; to know childishness is to know original error. And there are many children more mature than adults, many adults less mature than children.

The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion are bad — is extremely untruthful and makes the person making the statement lose credibility right away. We are all flawed and even nature is flawed. Nobody is perfect, and no country, race or religion is perfect. Duality and polarity are imprinted in everything in nature — in all humans, and even within ourselves. For example, there are those who are ignorant, and those who are wise.

If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.

Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy.

It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.

Be an intentionally D.U.M.B. Person today! D-Demonstrate love to someone todayU-Understand and encourage someone todayM-Motivate someone todayB-Believe in someone today

Do not pursue a life that looks good. Pursue a life that is good.

What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man with substance and wisdom of gold. What if God was dressed as a carpenter with dirty nails and beaten boots? Would you recognize your Maker? Would you give him your time? Your vote? A cup of tea or water? Only those with truth in them will recognize truth. And you must learn to recognize all that is untrue to get the truth.

You left yesterday hoping to see tomorrow and you shall surely see today so far us you have life. Mind and man what is in today and make today the solid foundation for tomorrow. Focus on what tomorrow brings and let yesterday be yesterday. If there are lessons to learn from yesterday, don’t neglect them and don’t be crippled by the negativity of yesterday; only use them as the best panacea and antidote to the ‘had I knows’ of tomorrow you are yet to meet!

Service is the highest form of worship.

You can create any product from time

The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.

There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude.

Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.

We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.

It’s mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches

My purpose of life is sweet indeed.I like to help people when in need.I am longing for happiness.I am expressing my kindness.I am expressing my love every day.I am compassionate all the way.

He who has foresight has more than two eyes.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that's what it's about. It's about facing life together.

A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time!

To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Wisdom is the result of time well spent

Imagine you are in a classroom and they hand you a test with many interesting multiple choice questions, until you get to “Can you just explain what exactly you believe how the Universe started?” & here are the options. a) The Big Bang b) It’s always been therec) God! or Godsd) A bowl of cherries e) I don’t know…. If you choose (a) then what or who & why caused it? & the test continues…..If you choose (b) that would be my choice. If you choose (c) then who or what created God or Gods? And where do they come from? And if you think they have always been there, the same thing could be said about the universe. If you choose (d) It doesn’t make sense, it is odd, an anomaly, not supposed to be etc :) if you choose (e) then you are being honest. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing. You can make “assumptions” or “pretending” that you know or a book (bible) “knows” or “tells” you but I just don’t buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And the test (life) continues with more wonderful questions and experiences :)

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish do not desire it.

Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very thing for which we pulled on heaven. You know why? In those moments we see the magnanimity of GOD's unfailing mercy to undeserving men like us.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

Plunging into the depths of hell, re-opening the gates to wounds and emotions that we have long tried to keep sealed and locked within, we discover that that the devil is not the Herculean ruler of darkness that we had imagined, but only a vulnerable and devastated child. With honesty and without judgment, we must muster the courage to meet this innocent child with whom we have come to label as the devil.

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.

Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.

People will be jealous of you for anything. Do bad and they will be jealous of you for being bad, do good and they will be jealous of you for being good, pull yourself up out of the ashes and they will be jealous of your strength, work hard and succeed and they will be jealous of your perseverance, buy new shoes and people will want to steal them, grow your hair long and people with want to cut it, laugh out loud and people will be jealous of your reasons for laughing. The truth is that envy is not because of you; but envy is in the eye of the beholder!

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

‎Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

When you are in love, reality becomes illusion and illusion become reality.

Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.

a problem well put is half solved.

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

There is no right or wrong.There is no weak or strong.There is only you.There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.There is no beast or beauty.There is no task or duty.There is only you.There is no passion or mission. There is no wisdom or vision.There is only you.Nothing is there when you're not here.So love yourself and take great care.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Working on your dream whenever it is convenient for you will not work. When you dare to dream, you should also dare to do.

Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Life itself is the most precious gift to me, for that I am perpetually indebted.

Look to the past with wisdom, and look to the future with courage.