Wisdom Quotes - Page 80

By spending love, you increase the value of your life.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Wisdom grows not by sitting in peace and solitude in meditation, but by confronting the storms of the past, and studying what triggered them so that we can prevent them from happening again.

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

Most people forget that Wisdom can't thrive where there's no "Respect

The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

We know the truth of a matter when we are able to see and understand it. The truth does not change, only our perception of the truth changes depending on how clearly we see and how much we understand.

When we will learn to seethere is no you and me.You and me becoming we,in the world peace will be.

Create memories every day. You will grow a diamond on the way.

Sure we all need money but what do you really focus on? It is a matter of the heart. If your thoughts are on material and worldly things, no good fruits can come out of it.Seek the kingdom of God first and the other things shall be added unto you not vice versa.

Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards

One who knows the Self, knows God.

If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke.

Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.

If you want to heal or experience more happiness in life, learn to move out of the head and be in your heart more. You will know you are "in your head" when you analyze, control and overthink. When you have run on thoughts, worry, and talk without listening. When you take all the workshops and read all the books, but aren't experiencing it's message in your life, in your heart.

In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision.

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

My action is my prayer.

Write like you have many readers.

Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that.

Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love.

The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference

The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions.

When I see the darkness and fight,I want to be the love and light.When I see the sadness and suffering,I want to bring happiness and caring.When I see ignorance and agony,I want to cure it as a great alchemy.When I see frustration and torment,I want to bring opportunities to invent.When I see violence and destruction,I want to win by love with great intention.

Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night-- then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence.

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and a working man is that they have now, while the other does not have it yet. Such things can be taken. They are always taken.

Love is an attraction of mutual happiness.

Develop a strong thirst for positive associations and learning from others, because the right people can take you further than you can go on your own.

There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done.

There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true that the new tastemakers are us.

Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.

Hope without love is hopeless.

Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?

In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn.

Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer's inner vision.

Celebration is the sparkle in the eye of the one who glows. It is the song that plays in the house of freedom. Celebration is the dance of life, it’s the one dancing to the drumbeat of the heart, it’s your birthday cake, it’s you blowing out the trick candles, it’s you delighting in the fire of life.

Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.

Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.