Wisdom Quotes - Page 190

End of a matter is better than its beginning

Fools, their wisdom weak,are their own enemiesas they go through life,doing evilthat bearsbitter fruit.

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

Deepak Chopra

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Karl Lagerfeld

Look no farther than your hand,Make a choice and take a stand.

Shannon Hale

There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

Donita K. Paul

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

Rachel Naomi Remen

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

George Gordon Byron

In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction.But why do they bother? Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?Well, yes, it does. Every animal and plant is an integral part of its environment: even Komodo dragons have a major role to play in maintaining the ecological stability of their delicate island homes. If they disappear, so could many other species. And conservation is very much in tune with our survival. Animals and plants provide us with life-saving drugs and food, they pollinate crops and provide important ingredients or many industrial processes. Ironically, it is often not the big and beautiful creatures, but the ugly and less dramatic ones, that we need most.Even so, the loss of a few species may seem irrelevant compared to major environmental problems such as global warming or the destruction of the ozone layer. But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving.There is one last reason for caring, and I believe that no other is necessary. It is certainly the reason why so many people have devoted their lives to protecting the likes of rhinos, parakeets, kakapos, and dolphins. And it is simply this: the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.

Mark Carwardine

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Aaron Cohen

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

Lionel Barrymore

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Carl Sandburg

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Glenway Wescott

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Sallust

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Mary E. Pearson

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Paul Brunton

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Thomas M. Sterner

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

Hugh MacLeod

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Colin Bateman

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Aberjhani

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

Sarah Jessica Parker

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; they are economic commodities. Given this status and the reality of markets, the level of protection provided by animal welfare will generally be limited to what promotes efficient exploitation. That is, we will protect animal interests to the extent that it provides an economic benefit.

Gary L. Francione

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

Munia Khan

The night is still waiting.

Dejan Stojanovic

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Dejan Stojanovic

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Kate Horsley

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it.

William Wordsworth

In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.-Kikyo

Rumiko Takahashi

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Confucius

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.

Shannon L. Alder

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

Pope Gregory I

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

Victor Hugo

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

John O'Donohue

People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.

Jaeda DeWalt

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Jacob Bronowski

The most talented people are always the nicest.

James Caan

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George Sheehan

Wise men speak only of what they know

J.R.R. Tolkien

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Dale Carnegie

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Michel de Montaigne

Don't be cool. Like everything.

Shaky Kane

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

John Brunner

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Ingrid Bergman

When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

Sengcan

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

Luanne Rice

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Norman Vincent Peale

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Colin Firth

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Joyce Meyer

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

Roopleen

...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

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