Wisdom Quotes - Page 66

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

I don't think I understand that," Meg insisted. "How can you lust yourself into oblivion. ""Oh, easily," Ekaterina answered. "The lust is for things, possessions. The weapon turns on the nature of possessions, the fact that every possession you own consumes a part of you. Tools, instruments, if they are more than conceits, these things do not defy the rule but they are exceptional enough they don't activate the weapon. Consequently, the mission of these alleged scientists is to create generalized lust, a frenzied lust for things unconnected to any sense of utility.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another,but in the end the listenin EXPOSES you even more that in exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

The deepest and most profound wisdom that exists and moves through us is the intelligence of our own heart. It is a flowing sacredness. It can navigate you through anything. An intelligent ocean of life's experience.

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

Oh! Let me love forever.Love is the joy and charm.Without beauty of love, life is a lifeless flower.

To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be.

... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.

For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.

We are all planted in God's vineyard and our lives are filled with potentials and purpose and we have all been given the hopes to anchor our lives even in the most disappointed times. So God is waiting to see what you and I will make out of the raw materials that He has given to us. He is waiting to see what we will make out of the discouragement and disappointment. I believe that in those deepest places of disappointment that the greatest grace will manifest.

The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never prayed for wealth but he asked for wisdom.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

Renew your mind by flooding it with inspiring, empowering, educational and edifying thoughts and words.

Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life.

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.

God's perspectives requires persistence. To have God's perspective in the world we live in requires persistence.

To get to ‘yes’ from ‘no’, you may have to journey through ‘maybe’.

I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

Pico Iyer: “And at some point, I thought, well, I’ve been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I’ve spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there’s this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex

Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

We are all in different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you.

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

Few of us realize our potential; because if we did, we would pursue our passion and walk in our purpose.

When God gives you a dream, He provide heavenly resources to fulfill the dream.

Leave no stone unturned.

failure and obstacles are not the ultimate cause that deteriorate purpose but attitude and the mind

NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECTMy words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect.So be-careful what you send out!

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous.

you have outgrown this skin.stop trying to hold it in.stop trying to hold it together.let yourself break.

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Knowledge becomes power when you share it.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

It's never too late to love and live again.

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

Now you know that the fascinating phenomenon of love has nothing to do with the supernatural entity known as Cupid, but everything to do with neurochemistry. Likewise, divinity is a cerebral creation, not a supernatural one. And it has been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn’t made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain!

Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life.

When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

A terrible plague has either killed mankind or transformed them into demons ... and all they want is Compton's soul.The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.

The best way to acquire wisdom is by perceptual realization.

Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit.

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.