Wisdom Quotes Quotes

Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to “protect” you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.

~ Charles F. Glassman

The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.

~ Mark W. Boyer

I'm not an advocate of promiscuity; but then I'm also not an advocate of being virginal. It's not like I put virginity or celibacy on a pedestal, and as long as I don't get your promiscuity rubbed into my face— I don't care about it! What I do care about is the ability to recognize the sanctity of a union of two souls— you just can't say your soul isn't being united with others' when you have sex with them. So I think you'd better own up to what you're doing— no matter how frequently or infrequently or with how many different people you do it. I mean, make good choices! You are, after all, entwining your soul with another's.

~ C. Joybell C.

People come and people go, but God's love for you remains the same. No matter who decides to walk out on you. God will never leave you nor forsake you. His love is eternal.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Today is a new chapter in the story of your life. While you're holding the pen, what will you write? Now, is your time to shine! Will you continue holding the pen? Or, will you express yourself from deep within?

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We have the keys to open the Heavens door, Bible reading and prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn.

~ Scott Hastie

For every moment of suffering,Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy.

~ Scott Hastie

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.

~ C. Joybell C.

She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.

~ Veronica Roth

The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.

~ C. Joybell C.

Sometimes, you may think you have fallen into an abyss...when in fact, you've just descended to the roots...of the tree of life! Somewhere along your climb, you got lost amongst the branches, and lost in the darkness of the branches, the only way to find the straight way up would be to return to the roots! And from there amongst the roots, you will be able to look straight up and see the top again! And begin your ascent!

~ C. Joybell C.

You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse.

~ C. Joybell C.

Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.

~ C. Joybell C.

Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.

~ Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

People will be jealous of you for anything. Do bad and they will be jealous of you for being bad, do good and they will be jealous of you for being good, pull yourself up out of the ashes and they will be jealous of your strength, work hard and succeed and they will be jealous of your perseverance, buy new shoes and people will want to steal them, grow your hair long and people with want to cut it, laugh out loud and people will be jealous of your reasons for laughing. The truth is that envy is not because of you; but envy is in the eye of the beholder!

~ C. Joybell C.

Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

~ C. Joybell C.

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

...hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.

~ Karen White

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

~ Radhe Maa

What does it mean to be cultured? Who is the cultured person? The cultured individual is not defined nor determined by status in society nor by wealth; but the cultured individual is determined and defined by his or her sense for the art of life. And what is the art of life? The art of life is the reflection of the mind and the soul upon the world, upon other people, upon the respect and understanding of other people and upon the things that are in this world and beyond. There is a joy that is always sought in beautiful things. Being cultured is being conscious, reflective, understanding, feeling, aware. Knowing how to feel, to listen, to understand. A desire to find or to create joy in many things— that is the art of life. And these things define a cultured person.

~ C. Joybell C.

If a lion invites you to dinner, turn down the offer, no matter how hungry you are.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence, learning how to grow them is wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

~ Pythagoras

An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If a lion takes its advice from sheep, it will go hungry.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you live long enough & have changed enough diapers like I have raising 6 whole grown adult children one-at-a-time; you ought to be able to call out bullshit blindly, in about a million different ways & plays. My potty-training days have long been over...so what fool retards at their wisdom stage? For this chief reason, I could show you better than tell you, try as you might: you cannot change grown ups diapers in life, who think you don't know how 'full of shit' they are today.

~ Tracey Bond

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo