Quotes by Authors - Page 4936

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.
Amanda Hocking
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Alexandra Bracken
I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.
Nikki Rowe
No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.
Christopher Healy
...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...
John Geddes
To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
Joyce Meyer
Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
Deepak Chopra
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Bill Moyers
Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.
Santosh Kalwar
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.
Toba Beta
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy Parker
Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.
Kentetsu Takamori
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
Benny Bellamacina
If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.
Amanda Hocking
Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. Hodge
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
Tom Robbins
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.
Lama Surya Das
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer J. Adler
I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.
Anasazi Foundation
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.
Roy Bennett
For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.
Suzy Kassem
Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.
Sri Chinmoy
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.
Nancy B. Brewer
Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.
Suzy Kassem
FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Carolyn Mackler
How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
Sogyal Rinpoche
A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
Marva J. Dawn
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Mortimer J. Adler
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Henry David Thoreau
That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.
Emma Campion
We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
Jayce O'Neal
Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.
Hailey Edwards
Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
Nalini Singh
If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.
Haruo Shirane
...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
Washington Irving
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
We all have scars, Mia; they are supposed to make you stronger, not paralyze you.” ~Cole
Tina Carreiro
The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.
Brandon Sanderson
There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.
Joe Vigil
Cheap booze is a false economy.
Christopher Hitchens
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
Suzy Kassem
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
Khaled Hosseini
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
Walter M. Miller Jr
‎They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know that you are an eagle and they want you to think you are a chicken so that you will peck at the ground looking for ants and worms, so that you will never know that you are an eagle and always think yourself a chicken. Let them hate you, they will always be chickens, and you will always be an eagle. You must fly. You must soar." Said the old owl.
C. JoyBell C.
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
John Paul II
And someone, somewhere, was having an even worse time of it than me. I tried to keep that in mind. No matter how crappy your life, someone will probably beat you in the my-life-is-crap category. Not that I don't let myself whine a little now and then, but sometimes it's good to keep your misery in perspective
Lish McBride
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.
Christine de Pizan
Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.
Peggy Vincent
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Christopher Hitchens
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.
Scott Hahn
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
Shimon Peres
That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.
L.J. Smith