Famous Quotes

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

~ T.f. Hodge

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.

~ Malinda Lo

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.

~ T.h. White

one should never assume anything

~ Dick Francis

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

~ L. Quick

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

~ Donna Woolfolk Cross

The friend is a human EdenBut Eden is so easily lostWhen you choose, choose wiselyBefore you share, count the cost

~ Genieve Dawkins

No one is ever going to give you something that they're too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don't know themselves, so they don't like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don't feel inadequate. But you don't need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself.

~ Danielle Jordan

The brillant person who does not take heed is the same as the ignorant who does not know.

~ Debra E. Johnson

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

~ Robertson Davies

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

~ Saul Bellow

Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go? Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.

~ Amanda Hocking

You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you.

~ Toba Beta

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

~ George Orwell

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

~ Ravi Ravindra

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

~ Billie Jean King

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.

~ William Ellery Channing

To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

~ Sengcan

Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)

~ Ravi Ravindra

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.

~ Vera Nazarian

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil.

~ Francis Bacon

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

~ Oakley Hall

When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one.

~ Toba Beta

The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself and saw the others with pitying comprehension, saw their tortured motives, a white, healing peace descended upon you. Your betrayal became an impersonal one, like a bridge giving way when you crossed it, lightning, a motor collision--you were in the way and you were damaged--that was all. It wasn't meant for you. When you understood, you were released into a new freedom and wisdom.

~ Mary Schumann

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.

~ Toba Beta

No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.

~ Toba Beta

Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.

~ Sorin Cerin

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

~ Pearl Cleage

Man will never reach the higher wisdom,If he can't yet accept the pain of change.

~ Toba Beta

. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.

~ James Lee Burke

I wrote David because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

~ Anne Holm

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

~ Susan Wiggs

Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

~ Johan Huizinga

Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.

~ Alaric Hutchinson