Wise Quotes - Page 4

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

Don't force it, if there isn't flow let it go.

You are your own star.

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

A dog to vomit does turn,A fool to folly but return,The wise err and learn,Gaining from each burn.

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

Every living creature breathes.

When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

Do not allow a lack of one's own talent or confidence shackle the door prior to even opening it." (Ginger Susanoo, 2018).

Some People Are Wise, And Some Are Otherwise.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.

They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

The size of a fish does not determine its speed.

Greed runs in all men...

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

Apathetic to my pity party, God interrupted in a thunderous Voice with the words, “For we walk by faith, not by sight!” 2 Corinthians 5: 7 resounded in my head as I scribbled it down and smacked it up on my wall. There, I thought. Now it’s up on my wall where I have to look at it every day.

If you have answers to the “whys”, it will direct you to the “hows”. As simple as that!

A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigration’s negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self can be destructive, whereas an encircling sense of a kindhearted self allows a person to express the profundity and elation of a feral creature curiously exploring nature’s glorious playground.

Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble.

No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.

A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.

A river cannot boast to a sea.

Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely.

Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely

Never doubt, pray and believe.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.

More than being human, we need peace and love.More than being strong and capable, we need compassion.More than being clever, we need kindness and gentleness.But where are all these sense of humanity?Where is the love that we have for human life and nature?Where is the peace that we once had?What about our dreams, dream of a better world?Little children are crying, am beginning to feel guilty.Where is that sense of brotherhood?Where is the compassion?What about our faith, have we lost trust in God?

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

Even a whale is concealed by darkness.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

You can reach the roof of your house by stone stairs, by wooden stairs, by bamboo steps or by a rope. Likewise, there are diverse ways of experiencing the Absolute Divinity – the Ultimate Oneness. In fact, in that blissful state of oneness, you and God are one and the same thing.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

Be good to people only if you like anal sex.That's how kind people are.

A child who goes to school and shares his or her lunch with the classmates, is a billion times greater and more religious than all the book-learned priests, imams, rabbis and pundits in the world combined.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees.