Wisdom Quotes

It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more.

~ Wu Wei

If I read inspirational words, they better have some pain to back them up. My strength for moving forward has never been sparked by flowery prose calling me and Angel. Tell me how you swallowed Hell, and lived to tell the tale... the 'pain' and your transformation - will inspire me to soar. And I promise you, I will listen.

~ Alfa H

And I think THAT'S what we need to be pursuing with our lives: learning to be more skillful at coping with our minds.

~ Melissa Kirk

Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.

~ Anonymous

Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.

~ Nikki Rowe

When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.

~ Anthony Horowitz

To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The path is smooth, why do we throw rocks before us.

~ Native Teachings

Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.

~ Alfa H

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

~ Jim Butcher

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Awakening Land p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else. Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved.

~ Conrad Richter

Our lives are in constant flux, which generates many predicaments. But when these are faced with a calm and clear mind supported by spiritual practice, they can all be successfully resolved. When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment. At those wild moments, anything can happen, including war. Although the practice of compassion and wisdom is useful to us all, it is especially valuable for those responsible for running national affairs, in whose hands lie the power and opportunity to create a framework for world peace.

~ Dalai Lama

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.

~ Doug Larson

Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

What you see is highly dependent on how you look.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is a universal language.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a profound narrative that makes sense of life’s conflicts and misunderstandings. When all seems to be falling apart and becoming less rational and more chaotic, it is usually a different story that is needed to make things whole again. Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.

~ Michael Meade

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

~ Marcus Aurelius

You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to be a fool, you will start suspecting it. If so many people think you a fool your self-confidence will be lost. And if everybody goes on repeating that you are a fool, sooner or later you will come to believe it.Only a wise man cannot be deceived, he can appear as a fool.Have you observed yourself? You are always trying to exhibit your wisdom, always in search of a victim to whom you can show your knowledge, just searching, hunting for somebody weaker than you – then you will jump in and you will show your wisdom.A wise man need not be an exhibitionist. Whatsoever is, is. He is not aware of it, he is not in any hurry to show it. If you want to find it, you will have to make efforts. If you have to know whether he is gentle or not, that is going to be your discovery.

~ Osho

The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Travel is the dream of travelers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead now have learnt this long,Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.

~ Derek Walcott

To do things right, we need to UNITE black and white, red and blue, blue and white - all stars and stripes. We need to either apply all the lessons from the past - or get rid of all the stories and START AGAIN. We are moving towards a rainbow world. Our children are intermixing and so are our colors. You can keep your religions and traditions, but always stand with what is good for the greater good of ALL as a united neighborhood instead of a segregated team. This is what America needs. This is what the world needs. Our unity. In our schools, neighborhoods, communities, state offices and economic equations. Choosing to stand with the right wing or left wing, or this group or that group, is only going to keep this country divided and grounded. In the end, all human needs are the same and they will never change. So what is there to fight about? Let's hit restart and unite. Flip the script and start again. To make America truly great again, it must be united. Every bird needs two wings to fly. Any nation torn at the wings will never soar the skies. So we can all start here. The only political party anyone should be an active part of is the one called concerned.

~ Suzy Kassem

I call for all religions, cultures, countries, crews, parties and peacemakers to unite for the sake of building a peaceful, united global village for future generations. It starts TODAY. If we stay divided, we will only remain crippled - and we will fall. It is time for everyone to see there is more for us to GAIN through unity and love than hatred and division. Get wise and unite. This is the only way. We need to start fresh with a truly united perspective.

~ Suzy Kassem

You see, somewhere deep within the universe is a cosmic heart that pours knowledge to those with questions. And to communicate with it, you simply have to tap into your own heart. Yet there is a catch. You cannot be sleeping. You have to be wide awake. And your heart cannot be heavy. It must be as light as a feather. And your questions cannot carry any shades of darkness; they must be as childlike as a curious and receptive student of Truth. And the answers, can be interpreted in many different ways -- depending on how much truth you have in you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in the dark. I'm also the girl that finds gold where others feared to stray. Perhaps because I follow my heart instead of sage advice thrown my way. I don't want to become numb by always playing it safe. Many of our most cherished times happen when we shatter the damn box, step off the safety zone and listen to the sound of our soul.

~ Melody Lee

Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds.

~ Melody Lee

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

~ St. Francis Of Assisi

I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.

~ Lama Surya Das

If you don't REALLY miss someone, it's because you never REALLY connected very deeply with them.

~ Reuben Berger