Wisdom Quote Quotes

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

~ Anita Amirrezvani

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect, it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity.

~ Hermann Hesse

Leopards don't change their spots

~ Anna Jacobs

Big secrets were catastrophic. However hard you try to hide them, they bob to the surface and you must go over them again and again. They are taken out so often they become worn smooth as a river stone. You have to carry them around you like a baby. The secret grows until you feel like you are a skin that covers it, a thin skin, easily split, ripe

~ Karen Foxlee

This is because secrets are terrible things. Even the simplest ones

~ Karen Foxlee

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

~ Sorin Cerin

Don't ya wanna hear the secret?' his eyes were narrow and mean, despite the glaze of rum. Louer drained his glass and slammed it to the bar. 'You get happy by learnin' to say 'yes' to what life offers you, but stay happy by rememberin' when to start sayin' 'no'.

~ T.b. Mckenzie

Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose our true identity. We spend countless years learning each mate but never take the time to learn ourselves. In the end we know our mates better than we know ourselves. If and when the mate walks away we are stuck living with a stranger, ourselves. If u can't find comfort in urself how can anyone else find comfort in u?

~ Al-Saadiq Banks

All the roads of life end in death.

~ Sorin Cerin

Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life.

~ Sorin Cerin

However much we would adore the past it will forever die in the future with us.

~ Sorin Cerin

Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.

~ Sorin Cerin

Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?

~ Sorin Cerin

What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?

~ Sorin Cerin

Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?

~ Sorin Cerin

What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind?

~ Sorin Cerin

Do not walk away from death because you came out of it.

~ Sorin Cerin

Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?

~ Sorin Cerin

Do not rummage through your thought’s drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are.

~ Sorin Cerin

There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts.

~ Sorin Cerin

If you combine the suffering’s great color palette you will find happiness as well.

~ Sorin Cerin

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?

~ Sorin Cerin

No matter how many snowstorms will pass through you, none will bring you the spring like love will.

~ Sorin Cerin

No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle

~ Gaiven Clairmont

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls.

~ Sorin Cerin

We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

~ Sorin Cerin

I have reached this world’s dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.

~ Sorin Cerin

Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?

~ Sorin Cerin

However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.

~ Sorin Cerin

'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

~ Josh Cathey

Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.

~ Sorin Cerin

Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.

~ Sorin Cerin

To believe in what you don’t know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.

~ Sorin Cerin

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

~ Sorin Cerin

Of how much light will my destiny’s eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?

~ Sorin Cerin

The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world.

~ Sorin Cerin