Wisdom Quotes

There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love. Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us.

~ Raphael Zernoff

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion and understanding. You become more of who you truly are, when you choose compassion and kindness. It must start from being kind to yourself.

~ Raphael Zernoff

What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful? Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and rules dictated by the mainstream society. It does not matter where we live and what we possess. When we love and support ourselves unconditionally choosing to be ourselves as much as we can, this is for us, Being Successful.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Dare to love every person, including yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace,but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world.

~ Stephen King

She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation.

~ Erik Valeur

You will have the ability to see other people accurately as divine, amazing, irreplaceable, human beings in the process, just like you. You will have the ability to forgive them and live in wisdom and compassion. You can do this because all of these qualities are in you. In fact, they are who you really are.

~ Kimberly Giles

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

~ Gary Hopkins

Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

~ Soul Dancer

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, “I’m just going to love you through this.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Love is the ultimate creator.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

~ Larry Dossey

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

~ Sharon Salzberg

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

~ Rachel Hartman

Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Do not seek wealth or splendor, but seek true wisdom, freedom, and joy of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

The wisest people are often the simplest.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.

~ Debasish Mridha

To gain wisdom, try to understand with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the best wisdom. Simplicity is the best achievement.

~ Debasish Mridha

Truth is different at different stages of wisdom and awareness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Wisdom is the adobe of a great mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

The most important wisdom of life is to have the eagerness to gain wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Knowing is important, but understanding is essential for wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Wisdom is the highest strength, simplicity has intrinsic power.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

You cease to be wise or intelligent when your beliefs are false.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.