You never understand life until it grows inside of you.
~ Sandra Chami Kassis
Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive..
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
~ Josh Billings
My friend Madea has attitude that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.
~ Tyler Perry
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.
~ Anne Holm
In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).
~ Jacques Philippe
[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
~ Steven L. Peck
It makes no sense to compare yourself with others because there will always be better & worse people than you out there. Each person has his own path to make. You are where you are now. Could you reach for the stars & have everything you want? realistically no. You may not win Olympic Gold in London 2012 , or be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company etc but you most definitely have the capacity to make YOUR life as the Masterpiece it could really be. The choice is yours...
~ Pablo
In the dark , everything is scary
Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count
It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.
~ Paul A. Lombardo
Listen with your heart, listen to your inner voice of wisdom, listen to your dreams. You know what is right for you.
~ Cheryl Hamada
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.
~ Tahir Shah
For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.
We shall live to die once more.
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
~ Carlos Castañeda
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
~ Annie Dillard
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The worship of power is an old religion.
~ George Santayana
There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
~ George Orwell
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…
~ Jane Austen
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
~ Vera Nazarian
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
~ Charles Dickens
The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.
~ Luther E. Vann
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
~ Mark Twain
What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.
~ Chanctetinyea J.j. Ouellette
An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.
~ T.a. Miles
With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.
~ Michael J. Cohen
Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.
~ Immaculée Ilibagiza
Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
~ Melissa De La Cruz
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.
~ Randolph Bourne
Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.
~ Kent Allan Rees
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
~ Criss Jami
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
~ John Paul Ii
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.
~ Charles Kingsley
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
~ J.b.s. Haldane
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.
~ Allan Lokos