Quotes by Authors - Page 4931

O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.
Suzy Kassem
As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.
Belsebuub
Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing.
Belsebuub
Haste is from the Devil.
Idries Shah
The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.
Idries Shah
If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
Idries Shah
Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.
Idries Shah
Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.
Alaric Hutchinson
Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
Anasazi Foundation
Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T.S Eliot
Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.
Criss Jami
Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.
Suzy Kassem
I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.
Krystal Sutherland
SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
Idries Shah
It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.
Alaric Hutchinson
Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?
Renae A.Sauter
When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.
Marcel Proust
Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style
Cindy Ann Peterson
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
Kim Stanley Robinson
The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.
Ralph Alfred Habas
... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...
Christopher Rice
Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.
Ralph Alfred Habas
Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
Ina May Gaskin
In every bush lies a nest.
Kensington Roth
King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.
Toba Beta
I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.
Patrick White
How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does."“Which is?"Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it...
Patricia Grasso
I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;
Mark Twain
I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
Santosh Kalwar
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
Vera Nazarian
...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.
Chaim Potok
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
Anne Rice
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
L. Ron Hubbard
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.
Michael Ende
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
C.S. Lewis
There is no dishonor in wisdom.
James Welch
Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte.
Haruki Murakami
Life is easy. We make it hard.
Danny Wilson
the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved
Russell Lynes
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.
Hermann Hesse
That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.
Allan Lokos
Only those who row the boat make waves
Christina Dodd
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.
Charles Yu
There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.
Michael Gruber
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
Robert A.F. Thurman
... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.
Daisy Goodwin
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sun Tzu
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward Abbey
Desire is the seed of potential.
Alaina Odessa
CAN is the enemy of DO.
Alaina Odessa
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.
John Rosemond
Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.
John Holt
Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.
Allan Lokos
The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.
John Piper