Famous Quotes

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

~ Haruo Shirane

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

~ Nalini Singh

Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.

~ Hailey Edwards

We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.

~ Jayce O'neal

That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.

~ Emma Campion

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The intelligent have plans, the wise have principles.

~ Raheel Farooq

Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

~ Omar Khayyám

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

~ Aristotle

A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

~ Marva J. Dawn

Color is the overpowering of black, white – the final victory over black.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

~ Isocrates

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful, the best occupations are the least forced.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

~ Carolyn Mackler

FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

~ Suzy Kassem

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.

~ Nancy B. Brewer

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

~ Aeschylus

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.

~ Sri Chinmoy

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

~ Suzy Kassem

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

~ Roy Bennett

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.

~ Wu Cheng'en

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

~ J.i. Packer

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

~ Jefferson Smith

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

~ Tom Robbins

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

~ Euripides

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

~ T.f. Hodge

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

~ Amanda Hocking

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

~ Kentetsu Takamori

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

~ Noah Benshea

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

~ Dorothy Parker

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

~ Toba Beta

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

~ Santosh Kalwar