Wisdom Quotes - Page 97

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

When you can love your enemy unconditionally, that is the practice of divine love.

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other’s views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct.

Peace is the friend we find in silence.

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.

We can choose not to remember this day, but bones have strong memories. And earth never forgets.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever...

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.

You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

The courage to ask question is the willingness to know.

War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.

You can build a business, or you can run it, but there’s only two ways it can be run, you can run it straight, or you can run it into the ground.

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

Imagination is the core of attraction.

You might pass by those who're stuck in the neck bottle while you are swiming in your whiskey, be kind !

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Your body and my body are both totally made up of and dependent upon the elements of the earth—the water, the air, the heat, the land, the soil and the food it produces—as well as all of the elements that these elements are dependent upon—the sun, the stars, the galaxies, and a vast field of energy and space to contain them in. Nature is our extended body, and the elements outside of our skin are just as important to our health as the elements within our skin. Our bodies are connected to the universe as a whole, and consequently to each other and the many ways in which we influence our shared environment.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.

With the love of music, there will be no misery in life.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.

Let us say goodbye to winter to welcome the beauty of spring.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.

Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Where there are no changes there is no life. A plant has to change to bloom.

With a clear idea of what you want in life, you need to actively pursue your dream. Half-hearted attempts will not work.

Find out how much time you have then get busy using it.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

If you don't listen to that gentle, yet persistent voice within, you betray yourself.

You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.

Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears to the world around him rather than cultivating a person inside him that he knows is honorable and that he can be proud of. When all the focus is on what people think about you based upon your facebook profile or based upon the exterior that you put on everyday; you leave no room for looking at yourself and saying, "I want to look into the mirror every day and see someone that I can be proud of." And that's what a life of honor is based upon. It is based upon the knowledge that you know your own actions, your own self, and you can see the things that you do and know the things that you think. You answer to yourself, therefore, your standards need to come up to what you expect of yourself. It doesn't matter at all if anybody is looking. When such a sense of honor is present in a large group of people, that's when we see no crime rate or a very low crime rate, respect for other human life and personas, respect for the surroundings and really a respect for oneself. Because a respect for other people can only first be born from a true respect for oneself.

I'm not an advocate of promiscuity; but then I'm also not an advocate of being virginal. It's not like I put virginity or celibacy on a pedestal, and as long as I don't get your promiscuity rubbed into my face— I don't care about it! What I do care about is the ability to recognize the sanctity of a union of two souls— you just can't say your soul isn't being united with others' when you have sex with them. So I think you'd better own up to what you're doing— no matter how frequently or infrequently or with how many different people you do it. I mean, make good choices! You are, after all, entwining your soul with another's.

Like a flower, bloom with all your love and power.

The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Dare to rise, when all voices behind you say you can’t get there, ignore them and move on… it’s not about the talents and gifts you have; it’s about how wise you optimize them!

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

You are a success when you are going for your goal with passion and conviction.

Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.