Famous Quotes

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...

~ Seneca

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

~ Francis Quarles

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

~ William Zinsser

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

~ Ina May Gaskin

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

~ Gertrude Bell

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

~ Confucius

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

~ Confucius

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.

~ François-René De Chateaubriand

The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit , on ne pardonne jamais à celui qui nous surpasse par l'âme et le génie.

~ François-René De Chateaubriand

Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style

~ Cindy Ann Peterson

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

~ Marcel Proust

Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?

~ Renae A. Sauter

It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

~ Idries Shah

I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.

~ Krystal Sutherland

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

~ Suzy Kassem

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

~ Criss Jami

The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

~ T.s. Eliot

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

~ Idries Shah

Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of time I don't care about it. As of now.. live your life, cut those negative thoughts and actions, reach your dreams and goals.

~ Jayson Engay

People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.

~ Jayson Engay

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

~ Idries Shah

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

~ Idries Shah

Haste is from the Devil.

~ Idries Shah

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.

~ Dewayne Owens

Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing.

~ Belsebuub

There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.

~ Belsebuub

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.

~ Suzy Kassem

I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

~ Nando Parrado

I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, this is the simple wisdom that will always light my life: I have loved, passionately, fearlessly, with all my heart and all my soul, and I have been loved in return. For me, this is enough.

~ Nando Parrado

What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, Ericsson told me, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. Practice sessions that fall short of this standard are not only less useful - they're counterproductive. They reinforce existing cognitive mechanisms instead of improving them.

~ Susan Cain