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Your commitment shakes the very foundation of this universe. (from The Amazing You movie)
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
How noble is the journey of each human being, from Divine to dust and back again. How brave to enter a body and dance the dance of existence only to lose everything imagined to be true in the moment of death.
— Annie Kagan, The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death
If it doesn't open, it's not your door
— Life Advancer
I didn't change, I just found myself.
— Good Life Quotes
Empowered women empower women.
— Unknown
Even on my worst day I'm Kill'n it!
— Boss Babe
If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!
— Coco Chanel
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.
— Toni Sorenson
There is no real distinction between who can and cannot be a teacher. All that matters is that this person should have knowledge of the subject matter, empathy and compassion with others, and, above all, a great sense of humor which is the true mark of wisdom.
— Charbel Tadros
To get a true education, going to school is not enough. School helps students gain knowledge; however, true education is in gaining wisdom, which can only be earned with experience.
— Charbel Tadros
A stupid leader is like a dog who’s in love with his own voice. He will bark incessantly believing that people admire his tune. A wise leader gets his point across in as few words as possible and then gets off the stage.
— Charbel Tadros
A true leader should have the power to begin, the eloquence to communicate, the patience to execute and the wisdom to evaluate. Without one, he remains a slave to he who possesses it.
— Charbel Tadros
Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a price on wisdom for it can neither be bought nor sold. It should be given and accepted with no ulterior motives.
— Charbel Tadros
Wise people offer their wisdom for free and accept all gifts, for they know that the universe is not giving them gifts, but tools they will need on their road to wisdom.
— Charbel Tadros
It is an insult to a wise person when his motives for guiding are questioned. However, he understands that people aren’t used to free gifts and still helps them anyway.
— Charbel Tadros
It is the duty of every wise person to seek out people with potential and freely guide them on the path of wisdom. By doing so, the wise leaders of the future are born, and the world will have a chance to mend itself.
— Charbel Tadros
A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they work together, they are unstoppable.
— Charbel Tadros
Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithfully to him until you can make your own world tremble constantly.
— Charbel Tadros
The relationship between apprentice and mentor is one of the most beautiful and most sacred relationships. In sharing his wisdom with his apprentice, the mentor discovers even more wisdom to share.
— Charbel Tadros
There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness.
— Charbel Tadros
Knowledge, degrees and diplomas are not for everyone, but wisdom is. True wisdom is in being happy doing what you do best no matter how trivial it may seem as long as it is beneficial to you and to those around you.
— Charbel Tadros
Do not make people feel overly indebted to you. In their quest to restore the illusive balance and wipe out the debt, they will demonize and attribute wrongdoings to you. Instead, give with love and receive with gratitude.
— Charbel Tadros
The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive.
— Charbel Tadros
When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you knew.
— Charbel Tadros
Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal.
— Charbel Tadros
To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.
— Charbel Tadros
You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.
— Charbel Tadros
A wise person knows that he should not allow his roots to grow too deep in this world, for the deeper they grow here, the shallower they become in spirituality.
— Charbel Tadros
Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace when the mind rages war against the heart, when we fight with our thoughts the pull of our love.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Our task is not to find love but to remove all blocks that we have built against it.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
He who has little problems, shows little love. He who has overcome huge problems, has giant love. Because he understands what it means and won’t have others suffer like he did.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after death?” Maybe for the first time you must now answer the question: “Do I really have a life before death?
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
If we don’t express truth and love in relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
THE MOST HURTFUL BELIEF: We live in a world where we are taught that we get by taking.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
— Marty Rubin
It's not about how fast you are during any race but it's about your ability to dodge the obstacles in front of you.
— Ezzeldin S. Gomaa
Fight everyday for a better life.
— M.L. Shanahan
True knowledge makes a man reject the wrong , by chosen what is right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.
— Bert McCoy
Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went to the stakes fighting for their truths.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.
— Steven Magee
Life is a travel through time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a gun but nobody have the right to kill others because he is carrying a gun
— Hisham Fawzi
Because I started investing in wiserrelationships, I am now an absurdly wealthy woman—if blessings,fulfillment & joy are measured as wealth.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
— Stephen King, The Waste Lands
Wisdom is knowing when you have enough.
— Marty Rubin
You think it's time for a new beginning. You long to start from scratch, so you seek new things - trying like hell to reinvent yourself. Out with the old and in with the world's new. But you'll never create a version of yourself that is as magical and unique as the original. So... just be you.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to
— Graham Austin-King, Fae - The Realm of Twilight
We don't even know we are one family, one faith!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One spirit, one shepherd
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It doesn't matter how old you are," Lila said. "What matters is how you live.
— Anat Talshir, About the Night
We rely on our education, on our judgment and our intuition to make decisions, but sometimes we find ourselves in the most dangerous scenario we can be in as individuals or as team, when we don’t know that we don’t know but we believe we do know.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
They say watch the breathing, watch the diet and for God’s sake make that kid go quiet. But they never say: “I am wrong and you are right”, because the self –pride they always want to hide! But in time, like the truth it shall come to surface and all those lies, that awful misery they always boast about will be extinct, whilst their conscience filled with guilt.
— Mircea Popister
Without wisdom, a teacher is nothing more than a research paper: a knowledge filled text which is boring and has no practical use. With wisdom, a teacher is like a great novel: a text filled with knowledge, practical applications and, above all, fun.
— Charbel Tadros
Celui qui se relève de ses faux pas aura gagné l'estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu'on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.
— Yasmina Khadra, Dieu n'habite pas La Havane
There is no real distinction between who can and cannot be a teacher. All that matters is that this person should have knowledge of the subject matter, empath and compassion with others, and, above all, a great sense of humor which is the true mark of wisdom.
— Charbel Tadros
I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional love for life. You must never lose your childish curiosity for the possibilities in every single day. Who you can be, what you can see, what you can feel and where it can lead you. Be in love with your life, everything about it. The sadness and the joys, the struggles and the lessons, your flaws and strengths, what you lose and what you gain.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Insecurities are like mosquitos, you try to get rid of them but they still come back.
— Myles Hickmond
To take a leap, you must hope not to fall.
— Myles Hickmond
When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...
— Nanette L. Avery
The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.
— Annabel Lyon, The Sweet Girl
Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
You do not deserve what you think you deserve, But you Deserve what you do.
— Haritha Velpureddy
Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different
It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
If I read inspirational words, they better have some pain to back them up. My strength for moving forward has never been sparked by flowery prose calling me and Angel. Tell me how you swallowed Hell, and lived to tell the tale... the 'pain' and your transformation - will inspire me to soar. And I promise you, I will listen.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
And I think THAT'S what we need to be pursuing with our lives: learning to be more skillful at coping with our minds.
— Melissa Kirk
The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune
— Philo of Alexandria
Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.
— Rachel Van Dyken, The Consequence of Revenge
We make the money
—  money never make us
It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.
— Anonymous
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night-- then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
— King Solomon Son of David
I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
— King Solomon Son of David
Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.
— Nikki Rowe
When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.
— Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin
To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The path is smooth, why do we throw rocks before us.
— Native Teachings
Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
The Awakening Land" p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, "You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else." Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved.
— Conrad Richter, The Awakening Land: The Trees, The Fields, & The Town
Our lives are in constant flux, which generates many predicaments. But when these are faced with a calm and clear mind supported by spiritual practice, they can all be successfully resolved. When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment. At those wild moments, anything can happen, including war. Although the practice of compassion and wisdom is useful to us all, it is especially valuable for those responsible for running national affairs, in whose hands lie the power and opportunity to create a framework for world peace.
— Dalai Lama
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.
— Doug Larson
Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
What you see is highly dependent on how you look.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is a universal language.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a profound narrative that makes sense of life’s conflicts and misunderstandings. When all seems to be falling apart and becoming less rational and more chaotic, it is usually a different story that is needed to make things whole again. Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
Dive down into the deepest depth of your soul there you will find your ocean of wisdom.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to be a fool, you will start suspecting it. If so many people think you a fool your self-confidence will be lost. And if everybody goes on repeating that you are a fool, sooner or later you will come to believe it.Only a wise man cannot be deceived, he can appear as a fool.Have you observed yourself? You are always trying to exhibit your wisdom, always in search of a victim to whom you can show your knowledge, just searching, hunting for somebody weaker than you – then you will jump in and you will show your wisdom.A wise man need not be an exhibitionist. Whatsoever is, is. He is not aware of it, he is not in any hurry to show it. If you want to find it, you will have to make efforts. If you have to know whether he is gentle or not, that is going to be your discovery.
— Osho, The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu
The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Travel is the dream of travelers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead now have learnt this long,Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.
— Derek Walcott
To do things right, we need to UNITE black and white, red and blue, blue and white - all stars and stripes. We need to either apply all the lessons from the past - or get rid of all the stories and START AGAIN. We are moving towards a rainbow world. Our children are intermixing and so are our colors. You can keep your religions and traditions, but always stand with what is good for the greater good of ALL as a united neighborhood instead of a segregated team. This is what America needs. This is what the world needs. Our unity. In our schools, neighborhoods, communities, state offices and economic equations. Choosing to stand with the right wing or left wing, or this group or that group, is only going to keep this country divided and grounded. In the end, all human needs are the same and they will never change. So what is there to fight about? Let's hit restart and unite. Flip the script and start again. To make America truly great again, it must be united. Every bird needs two wings to fly. Any nation torn at the wings will never soar the skies. So we can all start here. The only political party anyone should be an active part of is the one called concerned.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I call for all religions, cultures, countries, crews, parties and peacemakers to unite for the sake of building a peaceful, united global village for future generations. It starts TODAY. If we stay divided, we will only remain crippled - and we will fall. It is time for everyone to see there is more for us to GAIN through unity and love than hatred and division. Get wise and unite. This is the only way. We need to start fresh with a truly united perspective.
— Suzy Kassem
You see, somewhere deep within the universe is a cosmic heart that pours knowledge to those with questions. And to communicate with it, you simply have to tap into your own heart. Yet there is a catch. You cannot be sleeping. You have to be wide awake. And your heart cannot be heavy. It must be as light as a feather. And your questions cannot carry any shades of darkness; they must be as childlike as a curious and receptive student of Truth. And the answers, can be interpreted in many different ways -- depending on how much truth you have in you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Coming down life's highwayAt ninety mile an hour I want to slideWith bad brakes and bald tiresInto my final parking space
— Richard L.  Ratliff
To be 100% at all times is like a mirage in the desert of frustration. Enjoy your conquest and rest your mind. This will never be in vain.
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Achievements must be highlights and not forgotten. So you always will have to rely in something on your frustrations.
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Let your only graduation be in the grave.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in the dark. I'm also the girl that finds gold where others feared to stray. Perhaps because I follow my heart instead of sage advice thrown my way. I don't want to become numb by always playing it safe. Many of our most cherished times happen when we shatter the damn box, step off the safety zone and listen to the sound of our soul.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
— St. Francis of assisi
I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.
— Lama Surya Das, Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
If you don't REALLY miss someone, it's because you never REALLY connected very deeply with them.
— Reuben Berger
And then she reminded me: "It's the journey, not the destination, true?""True." I said " A bit hackneyed, but true indeed."She sighed. I smiled.
— Susan Spencer-Wendel
Happiness keeps you Sweet , Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing, But Only faith Keeps You Going! Be Happy Live Simply.
— Abhysheq Shukla
Wisdom : balance between survival, principles and emotions.
— Vishal Gupta
Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.
— Barry Schwartz
People say that a dog can sense the longing of a person, so perhaps he's barking in response to your heart.
— Kim Dong Hwa, The Color of Water
If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.No one should have gone through what we went through, but we did. And it kills me to think of it.But I didn't love you like you loved me. I don't hate you for that. It just makes me sorry, that there isn't someone else who could love you better.I know when you think about how I went, you'll get it. I was always uneasy about being alive. The idea of being dead makes me feel clear. When I think of it. It makes me think peace, peace, peace. It makes me happy. I am looking forward to it, to the absence of everything. And so I want you to be happy for me, that this is better for me. That I found what I needed. I know you won't be. But it's the last thing I want. You happy.
— Alexander Chee, Edinburgh
You have your own problems right now, Zenik, said a voice in her head. Stop worrying about saving the world and save your own ass. Sometimes her inner voice could be very wise.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Mungu hatakubali kuwa na mtu katika ufalme wake ambaye hatakubali kutawaliwa naye. Usikubali kutawaliwa na Ibilisi, kubali kutawaliwa na Mungu. Ni jukumu letu kuanza kuishi sasa kama vile tutakavyoishi mbinguni. Shetani anataka uwe na hekima ya duniani ili akupumbaze. Lakini hofu ya Mungu ndiyo msingi wa hekima ya kweli. Ukitaka asikupumbaze, pokea Roho ya Mungu kwa kubatizwa. Ukiipokea Roho ya Mungu utajua mambo ya Mungu, ambayo dunia haiwezi kujua.
— Enock Maregesi
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
It is our harsh fate on earth that body and soul should be so closely bound together; that the soul should have to drag the body along, should be exposed to its vicissitudes, should even respond to them. This primal curse has always weighed heavily upon us; but how much more heavily under a religious law which compels us to endure this outrageous condition; which will not permit our honor, when it is imperiled, to save itself by casting aside the body, and seeking refuge in the world of the spirit!
— Jules Michelet, Joan of Arc
Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
...just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not the truth...
— Mindy McGinnis, Given to the Sea
Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With the love of music, there will be no misery in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To live without love, is to have no light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Imagination is a holy impressions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is only through the darkness, we desire the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
You can change your life, one day at a time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes never rest on the shadow it casts upon those who have sent it towards him. And wiser still is the man to whom sorrow and joy not only bring increase of consciousness, but also the knowledge that something exists superior to consciousness even. To have reached this point is to reach the summit of inward life, whence at last we look down on the flames whose light has helped our ascent.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.
— Germany Kent
To live only for pleasure is to die while living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The worth of your strength cannot be measured in wages.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming sorrow may spring. We are wrong in believing that it comes from without. For indeed we create it within us, out of our very substance.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
Battles like that . . .” My voice lowered. “They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they don’t. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sacrifice, every small act of defiance adds up..
— Kaitlin Bevis, Aphrodite
Do not spend all your strength to make money.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile! What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work.
— Solomon, Ecclesiastes, a New Tr. with Notes by J.N. Coleman
Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you.
— Ken Poirot
One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.
— Gabrielle Zevin
He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind
—  it is destroyed when you are cruel.
When we get too comfortable in our routine we stop challenging ourselves. Complacency is the silent dream killer.
— Nina Guilbeau
We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.
— Ken Poirot
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
— King Solomon, The Proverbs of Solomon
Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?
— Ken Poirot
Never get into a pissin' contest with a skunk." Mary Jo R.
— Timothy G. Cameron
Faith in God is the fruit of the earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who value wisdom know that when you give people something for nothing, you produce ungrateful people; that when you obscure the differences between men and women, you end up with many aimless men and angry women; that when you give children “self-esteem” without their earning it, you produce narcissists who enter adulthood often incapable of empathy and of handling life; that if you do not destroy evil, it will proliferate; and that if you are kind to the cruel, you will end up being cruel to the kind. If you really want goodness to prevail, wisdom is a key to unlocking it. The heart is not.
— Dennis Prager, Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.
— Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
Wonders encircled the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them - even if, in truth, their victims couldn't care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.
— Master Oogway
He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true wisdom is a thing that lies far deeper than consciousness. The chief gain of increased consciousness is that it unveils an ever-loftier unconsciousness, on whose heights do the sources lie of the purest wisdom.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that springs up aloft comes ever the nearer to love. Love is the food of wisdom; wisdom the food of love; a circle of light within which those who love, clasp the hands of those who are wise.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
— Mos Def
Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.
— Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
You should not judge
—  you should understand.
Terbang sendirian tinggi di udarakaulah Sang Helang... milik angkasarayabukan milik pepohonan... tempat engkau melepaskan lelah
— A.D. Rahman Ahmad
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
— Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
— Zeno of Citium
Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.
— Maya Angelou
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.
— Ava DuVernay
one plus one is two
—  so the cord of two is better than one.
You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
You can build a business, or you can run it, but there’s only two ways it can be run, you can run it straight, or you can run it into the ground.
— John Adrian Robinson
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
The world you are in –Is the true hell.The journey to Truth itselfIs what quickens the heart to become lighter.The lighter the heart, the purer it is.The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes.And the heavier the heart,The more chained to this hellIt will remain.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.
— Ken Poirot
Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.
— Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.
— James Rozoff
Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.
— Anthony  Ryan, Tower Lord
who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet..
— German Proverb
So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first.
— John Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job
I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.
— Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.
— Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
Mystics reign where lacks true education.
— Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
...the more I felt that perhaps believing in fairies was more important than seeing them. In seeing, there is often question and doubt.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret
Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.
— Bozorgmehr
El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.
— Immanuel Kant
Patience is a power unto itself.
— Robyn Wideman, Son of Soron
Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.
— Anthony  Ryan, Tower Lord
It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
Never leap into battle, when you may come quietly to victory at a walk.
— Gregory S. Close, In Siege of Daylight
A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.
— Scott Stabile
Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.
— Tarun Betala, The Things We Don't Know:  How mankind found answers to some of life's most pressing questions.
Youth is wasted on the young. If it was me, you can be sure I wouldn't be lazing around thinking I had the right woman. I'd make damn sure and then do whatever it took to make sure she thought the same, too.
— Avery Flynn, The Negotiator
Don't follow blindly; focus on strengths, not weaknesses
— Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Both wisdom, and generosity derive from God. And when one submits themselves completely to Him, one soon becomes like Him: wise and generous.
— Calvin W. Allison
Dalam aku senang berkawan, aku suka bersendirian. Diam dari jauh memerhatikan, siapa kawan, siapa sebenarnya lawan.
— A.D. Rahman Ahmad
Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.
— Germany Kent
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
— Emily Brontë
It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.
— Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.
— Nina Hrusa
The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.
— Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
It is better to seek wisdom of God than human.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Titles does not make a man. But the grace of thanks.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The wisdom of God is what we ought to seek.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there anything greater than life?
— Lailah Gfty Akita
Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?
— Ken Poirot
I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.
— Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Doubts are good. Confusion is excellent. Questions are awesome.All these are attempts to expand the wisdom of mind.
— Manoj Arora, Dream On
God’s Wisdom is only revealed by His Spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The real education never ends.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.
— Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
Embrace wisdom and relentlessly pursue joy, and you can live agelessly.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.
— Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Suatu mahakarya butuh pengendapan pikiran dan investasi kesabaran.
— Jessica Huwae, Javier
GPS has saved countless relationships because us men do not like to ask for directions. Now if women could only come with relationship GPS we would be one step closer to world peace.
— Ken Poirot
Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.
— Terry a O'Neal
Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.
— Raheel Farooq
Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In hindsight, events seem logical
— Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
One of my rules in consulting is simple: never solve the problem I am asked to solve. Why such a counter-intuitive rule? Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem.
— Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.
— A.E. Samaan
Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.
— Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.
— Andrew Kendall, The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!
— Germany Kent
Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land