Wisdom Quotes

Happiness depends not on what happens in your life, but how you live your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

~ Rhonda Byrne

Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

~ Alice Walker

Solitude is sanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Surely,” he said, “the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time. They know the ways of the sun and the wind, the lightning’s fiery feet, the frost that shattereth, the rain that shroudeth, the snow that putteth about their nakedness a softer coverlet than fine lawn.

~ E.r. Eddison

We see anything actionable, we don’t react to it. We consider it.

~ Bryan Larrick

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

~ Jay Woodman

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.

~ Debasish Mridha

If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.

~ Debasish Mridha

A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

As long as we still draw breath, we each have the power to bring change into the world.

~ Simon Boylan

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

~ Samantha Leahy

However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything the sources claim be accepted only if historians can independently verify it…..

~ Richard Bauckham

Equally, it does not mean that Christian beliefs cause more distortion than other ideological beliefs. This emerged with particular clarity in engaging with the opinion that Jesus did not exist. This view is demonstrably false. It is fuelled by a regrettable form of atheist prejudice, which holds all the main primary sources, and Christian people, in contempt. This is not merely worse than the American Jesus Seminar, it is no better than Christian fundamentalism. It simply has different prejudices.

~ Maurice Casey

Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels...God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes the Good One...A clear pre-Christian Gnosticism can be distilled from the epistles of Paul. Paul is recklessly misunderstood by those who try to read anything Historical Jesus-ish into it. The conversion of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles is a mere forgery from various Tanakh passages... [The epistles] are from Christian mystics of the middle of the second century. Paul is thus the strongest witness against the Historical Jesus hypothesis...John's Gnostic origin is more evident than that of the synoptics. Its acceptance proves that even the Church wasn't concerned with historical facts at all.

~ Arthur Drews

Therefore, God elected the people of Israel to reveal authentic worship and the pursuit of ultimate wisdom so he could reinstate order to a chaotic world.

~ James Mikołajczyk

Service is the highest form of worship.

~ Debasish Mridha

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.

~ Belsebuub

Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

~ Bryant Mcgill

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science & Love have progressed either ways with growth of violence!

~ Vishwanath S J

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

~ Aberjhani

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

~ Anne Holm

A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world.

~ Xingyun

No matter how fleeting Your smile is,Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Mind is a forerunner of all actions.All deeds are led by mind, created by mind.If one speaks or acts with corrupt mind, suffering follows,As the wheel follows the hoof of an ox pulling a cart.Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind.If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows,As surely as one's shadow.'He abused me, he mistreated me, defeated me, robbed me.'Harboring such thoughts keeps hatred alive.'He abused me, he mistreated me, defeated me, robbed me.'Releasing such thoughts banishes hatred for all time.Animosity does not eradicate animosity.Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved.This law is ancient and eternal.

~ Dhammapada

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

~ Pema Chödrön

TreeIt is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house.Even in this one lifetime,you will have to choose.That great calm being,this clutter of soup pots and books--Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

~ Jane Hirshfield

Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.

~ Bryant Mcgill