Quotes about wisdom

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the present. And sometimes, quite often in fact, this is more than enough to keep one busy. Time, which was once squandered, must now be given over to the actual, the possible, and perhaps that evanescent hope of a good outcome which never deserts one, and which should never be abandoned.

When we confront with reality, we not only loose peace of mind , but creative power and vision to respond our life.

Truth is relative!

One makes one's own luck, but you have to give the universe the opportunity to help you.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth

Luck always favors those who are bold.

Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

It's not about what we take with us when we die, it's about what we leave behind

Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.

I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

The worst illness is to live life that others want you to live and best medicine to this illness is "Awareness of Death

No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

The less you need, the more you live

Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;Religions need fearful followers;Systems need obedient slaves;Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,andI NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.

We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house."Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know. "Need they be mutually exclusive? Can't we have both love and house?"Joe smiled. "Certainly. But one must consider carefully how one goes about getting the house.

Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..

You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

Happiness comes from loving and giving

Because becoming suns to enlighten other people's faded suns is really worth it

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

We may have different faces but no one is different from loving.What matters most is the shape of our that love

Cinders, I would've thought you of all people would know better. There are no wicked stepmothers and there are no fairy godmothers, and there are no Prince Charmings. There in no preordained destiny. You get to decide that. You decide your destiny. - V

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion.

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. "So I recall," she said. "Not all wars are waged with bullets and swords, indeed. Some are wars of wills and ideas. It's good we both remember that." The smile faded. "But not all ideas win the war, and not all wills are strong enough. Darkness can descend so easily.

A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

I strongly disagree that we should not judge other people. Wisdom means good judgement. Those who fail to judge wisely often fall victim to superficial deceits. However, we should: Judge ourselves before judging others; Judge their hearts not their clothes;Judge their actions not their words;Judge the present not the past.

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.

This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Happiness comes from your mindset.

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

I have learned that many of us simply “See”, .........we hardly “Observe

...God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head...

When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

By believing in an imaginary invisible supernatural entity, humans may become good citizens. But this is not religion. This is merely an illusion of religion.

Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.

Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer to the next recurrence - and, eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Tragedy has a cruel way of ripping off the masks of self-sufficiency and self-satisfaction. It yells in the streets, "No! Everything is not A-okay!" It cracks apart our airtight theologies about God having everything under control. It forces us to get real and really struggle with the big questions of life. It cautions us that this life journey we are on is not easily comprehended with a few sermon points but demands a lifetime of wisdom to even begin to fathom.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

hope is just a feeling...will is the real thing....

We cannot understand the Higher Wisdom. Later, well after the event, we may see the lesson contained in the event, and be truly grateful. We must, however, submit to what happens, accepting all that unfolds gracefully. This is the key. All your tragedies in life and in the theatre come about because of non-acceptance of the will of the Gods. Not my petty little ant-like will, but the Gods omnipotent will, let that will be done, I say. This is the beginning and end of the virtuous life.

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.

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach me – now.' The Fakir touched the Mulla's forehead, and said: 'Now go home immediately and read a book.' Half an our later Nasrudin was back in the market-place, clutching a book. The Fakir had gone on his way. 'Can you read now, Mulla?' the people asked him. 'Yes, I can read – but that is not the point.

No soul in the world is without a particular mission to perform and accomplish, and the misery of every soul is in not having come to understanding of the purpose for which he is born. The lifetime of confusion is always caused by souls wandering all the time away from the purpose of which they were born.Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927).

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

Just breathe and believe.

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

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.

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

Gifts become curses when they’re not given their due respect.

Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being.

I had a dream that I made millions of dollars in life and was the happiest girl… when I woke up I realized that money could never buy my happiness in life, because my happiness comes from the ones I love.

Dreaming's great as long as you wake up now and again