c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their feet to cross on you.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
But the powerful words of the Pastor repeated in my head, “There’s a Champion inside of you!
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
...Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3: 5-6.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to access your power as a divine human being, you must search for the small inside of the big and for the big inside of the small. When you look up into the expanse of sky overhead, look for the stars, the planets, the birds that fly. Small things for the eye to spot. And when you look down into the the face of a streetside flower, look for joy, happiness, comfort, stillness, and a silent song. When you have mastered finding the small in the big and the big in the small, you will have mastered your own divinity.
— C. JoyBell C.
A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The elephant is the largest, but not the fiercest. The giraffe is the tallest, but not the strongest. The cheetah is the fastest, but not the wisest. The ant is the smallest, but not the gentlest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Only fools are born wise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Beware of befriending wolves; remember, they are only loyal to their appetite.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
If you want to heal or experience more happiness in life, learn to move out of the head and be in your heart more. You will know you are "in your head" when you analyze, control and overthink. When you have run on thoughts, worry, and talk without listening. When you take all the workshops and read all the books, but aren't experiencing it's message in your life, in your heart.
— Eileen Anglin
It is in vain to try and kick the wind.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I know a number of clever people who lack wisdom.
— Evans Biya
A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The pen is mightier than the sword
—  it should never run out of ink.
Knowledge is strength, understanding is mastery, and wisdom is power.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is intelligence set on fire.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.
— Iva Kenaz
Intelligence will help you build a company
—  wisdom will help you build an empire.
Money is a great asset, talent is an extraordinary asset, and courage is an exceptional asset.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowing your strengths is intelligence
—  knowing your weakness is wisdom.
One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest evidence of what is inside of a seed is its fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
From language to no-language is the journey and certainly every master has to use lies to attract you, to make you aware of your mindlessness, your stupidity. That's why I tell you to relish this very moment, and when you squeeze out the juice of every moment, then you will realise that there is nothing worthy in this world, then for the first time you start turning IN-wards, not otherwise!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
If you serve two masters, either of them may punish you for serving the other.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The question to ask ourselves; "Would you rather be right or would you rather have peace?" Some battles are worth fighting, and some are not.If being "right" is more important than having peace, and the cause doesn't evolve or enhance life, then we must ask ourselves; "why do I need to be right?"The question to ask in our own lives. At our work, within our homes and in our global community.
— Eileen Anglin
A tree is naked, no matter how big, if it does not have leaves.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.
— James Allen, The Wisdom of James Allen: Five Books in One: As a Man Thinketh: The Path to Prosperity: The Mastery of Destiny: The Way of Peace: Entering the Kingdom
Look behind you! Can you see yesterday? Look ahead of you! Can you see tomorrow? Yesterday is gone; tomorrow is yet to come! Learn from yesterday and plan for tomorrow, but be happy with your today, for that is all you have! Work hard with diligence in it and do your best to make it the best today! You may never have another wonderful day like today! If it is a rough day, work hard to be an over comer in the day, and that will make your story for the day a wonderful one! If it is a comfortable day, enjoy it and invest in it for a lasting tomorrow’s comfort for you least know what in reality is ahead of you! Build a solid tomorrow today! Today is today; use it well!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Purpose and reason? Purpose and reason are not the same thing. Reason seeks to understand. Purpose requires faith. Reason is attained. Purpose is revealed. Reason is acquired by works. Purpose is endowed with grace. And wisdom is the combination of both.
— RJ Blizzard
The fire spread from the small cinder then the flames will become strong
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight
—  wisdom swings it wide open.
One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Light is a beautiful servant
—  darkness is a dangerous master.
Intelligence opens the door to the universe
—  but only wisdom walks through.
Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Take your time to find and understand what you don’t know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that shows you something you don’t know, but something you don’t know!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Take your time to find, know and understand what you don’t know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that show you something you don’t know, but something you don’t know!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
All of our relationships and our interactions, the life affirming ones and the challenging ones, show us how far we have come and where we still need to go.
— Eileen Anglin
It is the roof that fights the rain, but the builder who gets all the glory.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Every single scar on her soul testifies of the times when she ignored the voice of her spirit
— Henna Sohail
A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The most dangerous enemy is that enemy when your ally becomes enemy
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.
— Debbie A. Anderson
Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our soul longs to be of service in some way. It's why we are here. If you weren't meant to touch the world in some way, you wouldn't be here.What act of service calls to you? Even the smallest thing has an effect in eternity.
— Eileen Anglin
Do not put everybody’s foot into your old shoe
—  it might not be suitable for everyone.
Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions | Uns
When birds eat from your hand, they are letting the whole world know that they trust you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be--it is everything.
— Dalton Frey, The Darkest Light
The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The sky won’t shed tears if stars refuse to shine
—  it will wait for the sun.
It is in vain to stone the sky, no matter how big the rock is.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, A-Ma Alchemy of Love
There are many paths leading to One. These herbs carry within their fragile essence a secret of Life, Universe, Creation, and the secrets of Enlightenment. We all carry the Truth within, and every drop of water, every flower, every man intuitively knows it, no matter what the path we choose to follow is.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, A-Ma Alchemy of Love
On the surface of Life, you walk, talk, act, play but you live only when truly in contact with your Souls, you live only when truly sad, only when truly happy. Sadness and happiness are different faces of the same coin, different ways of understanding the same truth. The sadness though, also brings the self-destruction, it tortures minds, carrying diseases and sometimes darkness.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, A-Ma Alchemy of Love
Materialized in a female body, with a life of an ordinary person, through centuries, She ascends to meet the ones that are ready for Her, that call Her, that have a wish to understand. She is the personification of the Universal Mother. She lives Love and Clarity and She dies at Will, when She decides that it is time to go. Her name is Ama.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, A-Ma Alchemy of Love
The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, A-Ma Alchemy of Love
I never wanted to be safe, I wanted to be good.
— Kermit Roosevelt III, Allegiance
Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind speaks, thought it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The only permanence is change
— Levon Peter Poe
When people are broken on the outside, society is taught to never be rude to them. When people are broken on the inside, society is taught to rub happiness in their faces and show them how perfect life should be. When someone has half of an arm, you are not supposed to go up to them and show them how great of an arm wrestler you are. But when someone has a broken mind or a broken soul, you're taught to go up to them and tell them to look for joy in everything. Society has a very long way to go in terms of what it means to heal this world's broken people.
— C. JoyBell C.
Through the absence of what we think we have to have we can discover our wholeness
— Renae A.Sauter
Observing is the basis of wisdom.
— Eraldo Banovac
People of the world, today always say, "Look up to the sky, look up to the sky", but while they do that, they trample on butterflies with broken wings and they step on ladybugs with broken legs. "Look up to the sky and be like God", they say; but nay, it is the nature of the mortal to cast his gaze upward, while it is the nature of the gods in the sky to cast their gaze downwards. When you are below, the way to look is up. When you are up, the way to look is down.
— C. JoyBell C.
Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.
— Melanie Greenberg
Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.
— Steve Cioccolanti
Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You are the only one capable of loving you the way you deserve to be love. The only hero that will save you is you, you are everything that you need, If you would only take the time the to invest in getting to know yourself, not through outside lenses, but by finding your quiet place within and learning the language of your soul.
— Micheline Jean Louis
The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider to be less fortunate than themselves. This has become the standard for measuring the goodness of a person. But this is erroneous. It is in fact very easy to be good to those whom you consider to be less fortunate than yourself. You know what's difficult? Being good to those you envy! That is what's difficult to do! People believe themselves to practice equality because they are good to those who are lesser than they are, but this is not equality if they do not show the same amount of goodness to the people who happen to be more than they are. I always look at how a person treats those who are more than they are, and that is how I determine the goodness in a person. Because the other option is just too easy. The other option comes with all benefit and no loss.
— C. JoyBell C.
It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to test a river’s depths with both feet, you will drown.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Cockiness – the state subjective or intuitive state of self-assurance – is a sign of ignorance. Maturity comes with encountering the horrible and learning about what a person can withstand.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A true Christian only falls upward and not backward
— John M Sheehan
The folly and wisdom of men starts when they stop thinking and start acting.
— David Benedict Zumbo
The uniting of the soul, body and spirit is the beginning of both the natural and spiritual life, but the separation of these from one another is either the end of life or beginning of a new one.
— David Benedict Zumbo
Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement
— Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic
Of people that hold an opinion that is popular and that makes them look good: I cannot take your opinions seriously. If you are of a persuasion that is popular and that makes you look like a better person, then you hold that persuasion as a result of no inner convictions of your own; rather, you hold that persuasion as a result of self-consciousness. It takes courage and inner strength to hold convictions that go against popular opinion and that go against what would make you feel accepted in the eyes of most. There are three levels to this sort of consciousness: the first level dictates that you are simply unaware and you go about with daily life with no presumptions, simply going with the flow of everything. The second level is the one that the current generation mostly belongs to: the level of those who believe themselves to be enlightened, awakened. This second level belongs to those who would call those belonging to the first level as "sheep". This second level belongs to those who would believe that there are only two levels: one belonging to sheep and another belonging to them. They are unaware of the third level. But the third level of consciousness is the level that belongs not to what those on the lesser level would call as "sheep" and also not belonging to the second level of those who believe themselves to be free thinkers. At this third level, are those who see plainly that the free thinkers of today are simply a different herd of sheep, who all hold a shared opinion of what it means to be a better person, what it means to be an enlightened individual, what it means to be free. They are the herd that believe themselves to be free. At least the first herd at the first level do not care to go about with such thoughts in their minds: they are the ones who care only of working honestly, living honestly, and doing good deeds. Those on the second level, however, upon believing themselves to be set free of former persuasions, are convinced of their mental and spiritual superiority. But, alas, such individuals would not dare hold any personal conviction if it meant they would be seen in an unfavourable light by their peers, friends, by the masses. Their inner compasses are controlled not by the image they wish to see in the mirror; rather, their inner compasses are controlled by the image they wish others to see when looking at them. Now, at the third level, nothing controls these minds except for the desire to see in the mirror what is true, what is pure, what is better; regardless if anybody else can see it or not. At the third level of consciousness, we find those who have transcended the pleasures provided by the feelings of other people's acceptance, praise, and opinion of them. To be good, and to believe good, not because it is popular, but because it is true and good. At the third level, we will find those whose inner compasses are controlled by their reflections in the mirror, not by their peers, their friends, or the masses.
— C. JoyBell C.
Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them.
— Aberjhani, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
I am sculptor. I am clay.What shall I make of myself today.
— C. B.Hampton
One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can either acquire knowledge through a library or just have a Saggitarius friend!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Travel is the best school
—  it has the best teachers because everything seen is a teacher
Most people forget that Wisdom can't thrive where there's no "Respect
— Professor Markins aka  Engineer Gikundi
Moments of the Spirit of God creates wonderful words of wisdom from above uttered by mere vessels of clay
— John M Sheehan
Sometimes I truly wish folks would learn to meditate on what they read being more proactive and less reactive for in so doing a humble heart will be found and wisdom from above will be sure to follow them all the days of their lives
— John M Sheehan
I love sharing the wisdom and knowledge of God's word and the spirit of it all He has put on the inside of me teaching me the most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing in Christ
— John M Sheehan
Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that will actually lurk in the bushes, play your mind, and pounce on you when you are at our most vulnerable state. Envy is the root of all evil, in all men and women, everywhere. They’re not going to leave your side, but for reasons that you wouldn’t like!
— C. JoyBell C.
Resting in God's unchanging love today as I embrace His living word with His seed of wisdom and knowledge unfolding a life deep in me changing me day by day into His likeness
— John M Sheehan
Raise your children don't train them RjS
— rassool jibraeel snyman
The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.
— E.L. Neve
Marrying a stupid person is a reflection of your thoughtlessness.Marrying a clever person is a reflection of your intelligence.Marrying a wise person is a reflection of your shrewdness.Marrying a virtuous person is a reflection of your uprightness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never trust your colleagues. Work politics are founded by them.
— Adhish Mazumder, Solemn Tales of Human Hearts
Don’t hate people who show you what’s wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.
— C. JoyBell C.
I really feel sorry for the many men who are surrounded by people who flatter them all the time. In Chinese we have a golden proverb: "The true friend is the one who shows you how to bow down. Because you cannot enter the cave of treasures without bowing at the opening. And the true enemy is the one who flatters you. Because you cannot enter the cave of treasures standing tall with pride." At the end of the day, it is those that flatter you who keep you away from the true treasures in your life. In the culture we all live in today, we are taught to surround ourselves by people "who believe in us". That is true to some extent. But in reality, there are many times when the people around us ought to slap us in the face because we are being idiots. This seems to be particularly prevalent amongst men. In their quest to build a kingdom, they surround themselves with peasants. But this is not how to build a kingdom. In order to build a kingdom, surround yourself with knights. True friends who will protect you, even if it means protecting you from your own wayward self.
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes what’s dead must be burned away to make room for new life. Sometimes you just have to step back and let the brittle bits ignite - but once those flames begin to dance their caustic dance, don’t you dare look the other way. Don’t close your eyes. Watch closely and let that image seer itself forever on your mind. Remember what it looked like in the midst of the soot, the smoke, and the haze. Remember, so you don’t repeat the same conditions that required such a blaze.
— Cristen Rodgers
The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyday we are innudated with exciting string of events on social media and news, even suffer sensory overload at times. Keep it simple; embrace one thing at a time
— Val Uchendu
Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints
— Val Uchendu
An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.
— Val Uchendu
Peace of mind comes from keeping people's opinion far away from self perception
—  one is steady and the other wavers
Laugh to be refreshed, discover to be surprised, accept and celebrate differences to be happy
— Val Uchendu
Remember that there is onlyone important time and is Now. The present moment isthe only time over which we have dominion. The mostimportant person is always the person with whom youare, who is right before you, for who knows if you willhave dealings with any other person in the future. Themost important pursuit is making that person, the onestanding at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuitof life.
— Leo Tolstoy, Eleven Stories
Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity
— Munia Khan
Removing yourself from the familiar and opting for the unfamiliar opens up the unknown. And within the unknown there are questions we have never asked ourselves; experiences we have never imagined; lessons we have never had a chance to learn. What we ultimately need when we are stuck within a bubble, is change. Another perspective of seeing and knowing what is possible. Traveling will open that up for you. The world will play its role; all you need to do, is pack your bags and allow it to happen.
— Jellis Vaes
If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I am not afraid of people who say all the wrong things that make others gasp in disbelief. I am afraid of the people who say all the right things that make others bow in admiration. It is incredibly easy to say all the right things. We all know exactly what the majority of people want to believe and want to hear. All we have to do is give them what they want, they will bow before us. Anybody can do that. I am more afraid of people who would like to persuade me into admiration, than of people who are simply being people; sinning openly and talking like drunken thieves. That's who they are on the outside, it's also who they are on the inside.
— C. JoyBell C.
Lots of people use good character and moral standing as a brand name. They know it's what people like, they want people to like them, so they wear it as one would wear a quality brand shirt. Putting it on in the morning and taking it off at the end of the day. Saying all the things they know people want to hear. If they were the very last person on Earth, there would be no reason for them to be of good character, because nobody would see it.
— C. JoyBell C.
A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As a working professional in the entertainment industry, I have come to truly cherish both my creative freedom and my independence. Because I, for one, know how precious and priceless they are.
— Cat Ellington
A Wise Mind Makes a Wise Heart
— Sara Niles
Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind
—  think well! Detoxify your thought and be free!
The only power we have to defeat everyone including ourselves from those negativities and mental doubts is confidence
—  and confidence means believing in yourself that you can actually do it.
Those who know ask to receive.Those who understand seek to experience or find.Those that are wise knock on open doors
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom: the tripartite force in the pursuit of Divine Access
The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.
— Jellis Vaes
It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains me the most is that her pathological condition ultimately led to her demise at the age of only nineteen.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Wisdom is the usage of Knowledge in a correct way.
— Manikanta Belde, Quotes Of Wisdom
​The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
All our unique human achievements may seem to be the creation of the unique human mind, but they are simply the by- products of our neurobiological response to the environment.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Many people define who they are, based upon what the world sees when it looks at them. They build themselves with their foundation set upon the perceptions of others. Do others think they are good, kind, smart, loving? But I define who I am, based upon the person who looks back at me in the mirror. If you were the only person on Earth, with nobody to see you, know your name, or ever be aware of your existence; what kind of person would you be? Live for the person who looks back at you in the mirror and be that person even if you are the last human being on Earth. Too many people live for what the world will think and will see; too few people live for their own soul. Are you smart, successful, got lots of super ideas? But those are not important questions. This is the most important question: do you know how to love? I do not care if nobody on Earth were to know my name; do I know my own soul? Do I know how to love? These are the questions I ask myself.
— C. JoyBell C.
Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death thinking about the chasm that exists between their ideals and their actual reality that they are living. There must be a balance between improvement of one's self and one's circumstances and the acceptance of reality. There is a beautiful dance that one must learn, which involves embracing the reality of your life as you would embrace a Latin dance partner on the ballroom floor, and moving that partner (your reality) in graceful strides, towards where you want to be situated, on that dance floor. If you dance with no partner (your current reality), you will arrive at your destination empty. Empty. That is, if you ever arrive at all. But when you dance with that partner, embracing and accepting it for all of its flaws and its redeeming qualities, you will be able to move across that dance floor as a full, whole person. Wherever you end up stopping in that ballroom, you will stop there as a whole person, not an empty one. So, accept the mistakes that have been done unto you and the mistakes that you have done. Accept the fact that you didn't grow up perfectly and you are not perfect now. Accept, embrace, love the people who are given to you to love. And love yourself just as you are.
— C. JoyBell C.
The difficult people who we encounter can be our greatest teachers.
— Eileen Anglin
always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
flying from work is never the way to find peace.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
To every bad there's a good and to every good there's a bad. And both are pertinent to the lessons of life, and the building of your character or individuality.
— Aloy Ricketts, Erotica: The Hub of Ecstasy: Series Three (Erotica Short Stories, Romance, Erotic Romance, Menage Romance)
if you want to help others, your little self must go.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
— Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda: V. 1
stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.
— Valencia Mackie
the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 8 Vol. set
Patience triumphs over everything.
— Abhijit Naskar
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.
— Swami Vivekananda
If you venture to be a sageLet your virtues subside your rageFor deep wisdom you’ll be veneratedLet cold veins feel blood cells generated
— Munia Khan
He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.
— Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.
— Abhijit Naskar
It wasn't until I look inside myself that I found the truth of it all.
— Anthony L. Williamms
Plenty are the tastes and plenty are the paths.
— Abhijit Naskar
Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.
— Abhijit Naskar
Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.
— Abhijit Naskar
All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.
— Abhijit Naskar
Accept all of you, the good with the bad, the successes with the failures, the times you shone and the mistakes you made. It will bring into a place of peace. It will help you to move forward with your life.
— Eileen Anglin
​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.
— Abhijit Naskar
Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection
Think before you speak. Your own words can cure or curse you. The power in your tongue can spill blessings or lessons.
— Bianca McCormick-Johnson, "I'm G.O.O.D.":
I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds them with the golden twine of harmony.
— Abhijit Naskar
When the children of God meet, angels also gather to hear the wisdom of God. So it is the duty of every believer, not to praise earthly men or leaders who come and go, but to praise God the Creator and Christ the Savior, who died for us in the cross.
— The Voice of the Martyrs, Hearts of Fire: Eight Women in the Underground Church and Their Stories of Costly Faith
No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.
— Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
God want to make you like boneless fish.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
The author of true, real and rare wisdom is God; ask Him!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
keep the relationship with your God private, special & unique... then ignore all the filters other Christians use to look at you...
— Mwirigi LG
Children inherit their intelligence from their mother not their father, say scientists... chose your wives/the mother of your children wisely otherwise start making mutual relationships with your local Headmaster, Principal, Governor & any person of note early cos it's going to be a long & tiring exercise pushing them up the ladder of employment
— Mwirigi LG
Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet.
— Abhijit Naskar
No mountain is too high, but so many people can't climb even a hill. There is always a way to the top, but so many people can't even get the mid and many miss the way. Life is real and the journey of life comes with rules. Mind the real and distinctive rules that lead to success and you shall get to the very peak of the mountain of success surmounting all barriers, challenges and puzzles along the journey to success with a great degree of ease!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone.
— Sahara Sanders
Don't be in the Money Making Business
—  be in the Business Making Money.
A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigration’s negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self can be destructive, whereas an encircling sense of a kindhearted self allows a person to express the profundity and elation of a feral creature curiously exploring nature’s glorious playground.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your Attention is your Investment. The Smarter you Invest, The Better Your ROI will be.
— Rehan Gillani
Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Sensitive people are the heart of the world. Sensitive hearts will save this world if they are empowered. Caring deeply and feeling deeply is a gift. But it's important to shift it out of victim and wounded and into the strength and blessing that it truly is and can be.
— Eileen Anglin
Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can rely on a stick, but not on a faithless friend.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
You don't have to look nice to be wise.
— Nadun Lokuliyanage
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Discover the God in Life itself. And one who does, becomes a better version of himself or herself. If the entrepreneur thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better entrepreneur. If the student thinks he or she is the God, he or she will be a better student. If the Scientist thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better Scientist, and so on.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
God knows the WHY , we only receiving the wisdom.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
If you want the windows of opportunity be opened for you, Do not neglect to create a goal.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.
— Dariush Youkhaneh
To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to recognise the worth of real diamonds. A person must study this in school. A diamond does not go to school to learn how to prove its worth. It is the person who must go to school in order to recognise the worth of a diamond. Dear diamonds everywhere, stop trying to go to school. The worthy will recognise your worth.
— C. JoyBell C.
Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near
—  it has been preparing for it all of its life.
Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
— Apj Abdulkalam
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People in this world, on this planet, all of these people are lonely. To varying degrees, human beings are lonely. Many are not; but too many are. And they are too frequently lonely, too. They fill their minds with things called dreams, plans, conclusions, outlooks, new stuff, self-imagery, self-esteem, illusions, fabrications; all of these things are noisy. They fill their minds up with all the things that are noisy enough to drown out the silence of their loneliness. And they think they're going somewhere because they gauge direction and success based upon the measurements of the distance covered over the platforms of the things they fill their minds with. The noise they fill their minds with. In reality, they're not going anywhere. They are sitting right there alone in that empty room of their minds where their hearts ache (or are numb), yet the walls are covered in noisy things, the corners filled with noisy things! It's a horror story, really. The people of this world are living inside a horror story and it is taking place within their minds. And you wonder why this world is unkind? You wonder why this world is violent, is unfulfilled, is half-baked? THIS is the reason why.
— C. JoyBell C.
Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Empowered girls will be the women that change this world.
— Eileen Anglin
I never dream to become someone important for myself. The truth is that I- I really don't have a personal ambition. My ambition, my dream, it's about the people. It's all about the people. It's for the people. It's all for the people. That is my ultimate goal.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
I think there some kind of instinct connection between me and children. When I see children I find it quiet hard to take my eyes off them, and I could not hold my smile either. I really love their simplicity and innocence. If everyone would've have been childlike, not childish, the world would be a better place.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it.
— Germany Kent
To get what you want tomorrow, be grateful for what you have today.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Before walking in someone else’s shoes, you have to remove your shoes first.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Wise people listen to your words. Learned people listen to their interpretation of your words.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A true leader invokes the desire to follow in those being led.
— Reverend Joaquin R. Larriba
It is very interesting how humanity has linked love to the lack of freedom. I think that when you find love, it is because you have become so free that you were able to truly find it. Love is a wild and running thing. Only the free can find what is wild and running. You become so free, that you are able to truly love. A life of bondage is a life lived without love.
— C. JoyBell C.
Wisdom is not merchandise, hence it is possible to come across a rich fool.
— Gugu Mona
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom
— John de Ruiter, The Intelligence of Love: Manifesting Your Being in This World
Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.
— M.J. DeMarco
Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Being in your head is when you analyze, control and overthink. Run on thoughts, worry, talking but not listening, taking all the workshops and reading all the books, but not experiencing it's message.
— Eileen Anglin
Where there is poverty and ignorance, there will be suffering, cruelty, corruption and intolerance.We must change everything and focus on education and empowering lives. Start in your own town and you will be a part of the changes you want to see happen in the world.
— Eileen Anglin
Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom
— John de Ruiter, The Intelligence of Love: Manifesting Your Being in This World
Listening to your wife is intelligence
—  hearing every word she doesn't say is wisdom.
If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.
— Gugu Mona
A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Advice for the wise: You"d better bite your tongueRather than cast a spell wrong.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Witches Of Avignon
A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.
— Matshona Dhliwayo