Wisdom Quotes

All those big words produce disgust today.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

Consider how blessed you are to have the things you do in life.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

Love does not expect anything in return

The closer we are to God, the richer we are

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Your Twitter Profile is your business card.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

The struggle is beautiful.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind.

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.