Wisdom Quotes
Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will.
There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves.
Life becomes much more easier when we do what we say and when we say what we do. Having courage to be ourselves is a gateway to freedom and happiness.
As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone.
Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom!
Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.
It is a wise man who, when his spouse asks, "How does this look?" can answer honestly without upsetting her.
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.
If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.
The major problem of the world is, most of the people are unjustifiably angry and very few are loving.
Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.
Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away.
It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
Hence the migratory bird was about to leave then the other bird just querked and weeped
Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...
Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.
Man is divided into two categories
If all was told, supposing there lived a person who could tell all, there would be no mysteries left, and the would be very bad. Man cannot live without mystery. He had a great need of it.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.
Always think backwards before moving forwards
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
It doesn’t matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.