Wisdom Quotes - Page 16

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

Looking flash without the cash is worthless!

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Ignore your pain at your peril. Your most potent lessons are often wrapped within its uncomfortable embrace...

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

When you truly love someone, you don't want anything except giving everything you have.

In hindsight, events seem logical

A problem is an opportunity to find a new way.

Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.

Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.

Peace is always kind.

Wisdom is the mother of solutions. You cannot upgrade in wisdom and lack solutions and you cannot have a wisdom and be stranded in any challenge you face.

Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lush growth and blooming flowers do not last very long here in the desert, and this new growth only happens once a year. If this growth was never-ending, we would soon take it for granted. Likewise, our human lives. What makes them so special and unique? Our fleeting impermanence.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

Future never desires to become a past.

Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow never ends!

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

If you have no time to love everyone, then just love one, but don't forget to love.

If you serve two masters, either of them may punish you for serving the other.

One thing that creates difference between pilgrims of life as they journey along the various paths of life is their head. It makes some fall, others rest and some pursue to the farther.The reason for the difference is not the size, shape, hair color or the style of their head but what is within their head, what fills their mind, what enters their ears; what their eyes look and see, what their ears hear and listen to; make some champions of life and others wanders of life.

I may not have all to be happy but I have to be happy with all that I have

Love, no matter how small, begets kindness.Joy, no matter how small, begets cheerfulness.Wisdom, no matter how small, begets intelligence.Faith, no matter how small, begets persistence.Genius, no matter how small, begets excellence.

Romance is the fragrance of pure love.

Give love, take pride

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, while choosing not to let them influence your emotional well being. Detached would mean I do not care, while un-attached means I care, although I am not going to alter my emotional state due to your emotions, words, or actions.

Everything is derived from time

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

The weak can never fall in love because love is an adventure.

Stress steals the beauty from life.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,to seek folly is to seek evil,to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

It is easy to fall, but hard to rise.

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.

Wisdom is a state of stability and unconcern. It is a balanced confidence based on stable reasons. Wisdom is not a talent or power sourced at your birth. It is the power of ruling over all the other powers you have born with.

I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.

Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

Live like the universe is your beloved home, love like everyone is your closest friend.

There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

Never judge anyone but to love and understand everyone.

The best road I want to walk on is the road surrounded by peace.

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.

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

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.