Wisdom Quotes - Page 46

Adversity tests the limit of our strength.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

Darrell Calkins

Where you are and what you have been through has you perfectly placed to move forward. Stronger, braver, wiser.

Tony Curl

I'm grateful for today. I'm stronger, braver, wiser.

Tony Curl

WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.

Anonymous

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances?

Lailah Gifty Akita

We don’t exist to survive. We live to strive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.

Christopher Hitchens

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

Christopher Hitchens

Love is the greatest personal force.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.

Kemi Sogunle

You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase

Kierra C.T. Banks

I love connecting with people who have been through the fire and come out stronger and wiser. Using their experiences to inspire and empower others. Those are my people.

Steve Maraboli

To have wisdom whilst young, to have strength whilst old, therein lies the secret to life on earth

Paddick Van Zyl

Mind your strength! Let people know that you are strong and let them see how strong you are, and who or what makes you strong, but in doing so, be careful showing people the true source of your strength for not all people deserve to know that! You may never know what is behind the mind! Sometimes in life, the day you show people how wise you are, the very day you show them how unwise you are! Get understanding and walk in wisdom!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you.

Lorne Ladner

I hold the hands of people I never touch.I provide comfort to people I never embrace.I watch people walk into brick walls, the same ones over and over again, and I coax them to turn around and try to walk in a different direction.People rarely see me gladly. As a rule, I catch the residue of their despair. I see people who are broken, and people who only think they are broken. I see people who have had their faces rubbed in their failures. I see weak people wanting anesthesia and strong people who wonder what they have done to make such an enemy of fate. I am often the final pit stop people take before they crawl across the finish line that is marked: I give up.Some people beg me to help.Some people dare me to help.Sometimes the beggars and the dare-ers look the same. Absolutely the same. I'm supposed to know how to tell them apart.Some people who visit me need scar tissue to cover their wounds.Some people who visit me need their wounds opened further, explored for signs of infection and contamination. I make those calls, too.Some days I'm invigorated by it all. Some days I'm numbed.Always, I'm humbled by the role of helper.And, occasionally, I'm ambushed.~ Stephen White "Critical Conditions

Stephen White

Imagine you are in a classroom and they hand you a test with many interesting multiple choice questions, until you get to “Can you just explain what exactly you believe how the Universe started?” & here are the options. a) The Big Bang b) It’s always been therec) God! or Godsd) A bowl of cherries e) I don’t know…. If you choose (a) then what or who & why caused it? & the test continues…..If you choose (b) that would be my choice. If you choose (c) then who or what created God or Gods? And where do they come from? And if you think they have always been there, the same thing could be said about the universe. If you choose (d) It doesn’t make sense, it is odd, an anomaly, not supposed to be etc :) if you choose (e) then you are being honest. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing. You can make “assumptions” or “pretending” that you know or a book (bible) “knows” or “tells” you but I just don’t buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And the test (life) continues with more wonderful questions and experiences :)

Pablo

Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great hand appeared over her and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father O' Rourke, and she told him the whole thing. 'Is gossiping a sin?' she asked the old man. 'Was that God All Mighty's hand pointing down at me? Should I ask for your absolution? Father, have I done something wrong?' 'Yes,' Father O' Rourke answered her. 'Yes, you ignorant, badly-brought-up female. You have blamed false witness on your neighbor. You played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed.' So, the woman said she was sorry, and asked for forgiveness. 'Not so fast,' says O' Rourke. 'I want you to go home, take a pillow upon your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me.' So, the woman went home: took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to her roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed. 'Did you gut the pillow with a knife?' he says. 'Yes, Father.' 'And what were the results?' 'Feathers,' she said. 'Feathers?' he repeated. 'Feathers; everywhere, Father.' 'Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out onto the wind,' 'Well,' she said, 'it can't be done. I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over.' 'And that,' said Father O' Rourke, 'is gossip!

John Patrick Shanley

It's Unfair to be fair,For Life is unfair

Farley Maglaya

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Idries Shah

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Idries Shah

It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature. The ratio was 21:1. Even those supreme perpetrators of pop nihilism, The New York Times and The Washington Post, have a better ratio than psychological literature. They average 12 negative stories to every one that might be construed to be non-negative. Many of their non-negative stories, however, cover success in sports and entertainment. I demand that the purveyors of despair who pretend to be dispassionate observes of the human condition go ahead and disclose that the 10 most beautiful words in the English languages are chimes, dawn, golden, hush, lullaby, luminous, melody, mist, murmuring, and tranquil; that Java sparrows prefer the music of Back over that of Schoenberg; that math experts have determined there are 1/96 trillion ways to lace up your shoes; that the Inuit term for making love is translated as ‘laughing together in bed;' and that according to Buckminster Fuller, “pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

Rob Brezsny

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Idries Shah

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

William Barrett

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Idries Shah

Know Thyself

Oracle of Delphos

He is not prone to remember evils, since it is proper to a magnanimous person not to nurse memories, especially not of evils, but to overlook them. He does not speak evil even of his enemies, except when he responds to their wanton aggression.He especially avoids laments or entreaties about necessities or small matters.

Aristotle on the Megalopsychos

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust from outside (not through an inner change of mind). If he believes he has found such a person, he gives himself up to him in the most complete slavery, and he searches in an importunate manner for people whom he could serve as a slave. He also wants to live as a slave so as never to be alone.

Otto Weininger

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one's own Universe, that is, of one's self.

Aleister Crowley

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

Idries Shah

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Idries Shah

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Idries Shah

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

Idries Shah

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

Idries Shah

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

Idries Shah

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

Idries Shah

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

Idries Shah

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

Idries Shah

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

Idries Shah

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

Idries Shah

The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.

Israel M. Kirzner

The liar has a bad memory.

Idries Shah

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Idries Shah

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Idries Shah

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

Idries Shah

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Idries Shah

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Idries Shah

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Idries Shah

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Idries Shah

Humility has to precede instruction.

Idries Shah

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

Idries Shah

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

Idries Shah

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

Idries Shah

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

Idries Shah

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Idries Shah

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