Wisdom Quotes - Page 99

The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.

Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn’t exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.

Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.

We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

There's nothing you can do about the past." "You're wrong. I can learn from it..." Tariq dug his heels into his stallion's flanks, and the horse shot forward, painting a dark smudge across the sand. "And I can make sure it never happens again!

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

If it’s taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift.

When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!

You do not need many possessions to have a happy life.

You can't win a fight with a fight.

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

Creation is scientific.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.i've never been able to separate the two.

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Imagination is a reality.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

Touch my heart, feel my love, don't look at me.

Wisdom is made complete with knowledge, understanding and good judgement.

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

Be YOU. There is nothing sexier than someone who is confident enough to be themselves, quirks and all. It is often your unique nature that separates you from the crowd in the best way possible for your romantic match to notice you.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Don't you be worried or annoyed, Sancho, about any comments you hear, or there will never be an end to them. Keep a safe conscience and let people say what they like: trying to still gossips' tongues is like putting up doors in open fields. If the governor leaves office rich they say he's a thief, and if he leaves it poor they say he's a milksop and a fool.

To find peace, find the love and understanding.

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

You find love, not by looking, but by giving away.

If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!

I am not satisfied with the love that I am giving away because I am always hungry to give away more.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

I can resist everything but love.

True love is the most rare thing in the world. Most people just pretend to love.

How could we have revived the soul without music?

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire!

Be loving but bold, be kind but not cold.

When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the ocean is also within us. The idea that things exist outside of our Consciousness is an illusion. Ancient wisdom traditions have known this for centuries, and even modern science has recognized that our sense organs merely receive information and project it within our own minds. Vision does not take place in the eye, but in an area located in the back of the brain. Everything that we perceive to be “out there” is being experienced “in here.

It is better to win souls than to conquer nations.

Becoming your best self should be your ultimate goal, and wisdom helps you discover your true self and can guide you towards manifesting your potential.

The young have everything but wisdom.

To be fearless you must fear less

If Christ attained the state of Absolute Divinity, so can you. And once you do, then only you will understand the true meaning of Religion and God.

One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.

Once we were in love, So I know it's true, the saying: True love never endsFor as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more Now that we are friends

without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

Use time to create the nature of God in yourself

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.

Peace will be there when you will be looking for it and ready for it.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.