Wisdom Quotes - Page 8

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

Garry Douglas Kilworth

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

Tragedy has a cruel way of ripping off the masks of self-sufficiency and self-satisfaction. It yells in the streets, "No! Everything is not A-okay!" It cracks apart our airtight theologies about God having everything under control. It forces us to get real and really struggle with the big questions of life. It cautions us that this life journey we are on is not easily comprehended with a few sermon points but demands a lifetime of wisdom to even begin to fathom.

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

Debasish Mridha

Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer to the next recurrence - and, eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Aristotle

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.

Gisela Hausmann

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

Happiness comes from your mindset.

Debasish Mridha

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

Brandi L. Bates

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Debasish Mridha

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

Pearl Zhu

...God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head...

This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.

Anthony Liccione

I have learned that many of us simply “See”, .........we hardly “Observe

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Debasish Mridha

Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

Dorothy Koomson

When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.

Molly Friedenfeld

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

Molly Friedenfeld

If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.

Molly Friedenfeld

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

Molly Friedenfeld

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

Molly Friedenfeld

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

Dagobert D. Runes

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee

Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

The deepest and most profound wisdom that exists and moves through us is the intelligence of our own heart. It is a flowing sacredness. It can navigate you through anything. An intelligent ocean of life's experience.

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Zack Love

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Gary Lutz

These wrinkles are the hands of time,The journeys I’ve been onThey’ve seen me through a thousand days,And ev’ry victory wonThese fragile hands, With exposed bones,Are not a fearful sightBut rather, they, my faithful partners,Rocked babies through the nightThese eyes are weak, They see much less,Than yours they’ve seen much moreThey’ve guided me through birth, through death,Through grief, through hurt, through warThese ears can hear so very little,Yet they’ve learned to listen muchThey perk up not for gossip now,But for a heart to touchThose younger often look my way,With pity looks to giveYet this old body doesn’t mean I am dying,But rather, that I have lived

Although generally our sight diminishes with age; I submit that our vision improves. The older we get, the more clearly we see our life’s decisions played out to their logical conclusions.

David C. Maloney

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

Indu Muralidharan

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

I thought getting old meant getting wise. Or at least secure. I don't know why I thought that; I don't know any wise, secure old people. Maybe I inferred it from after-school specials. And I'd like to think by the time you die, you've figured something out. That you aren't lying there wondering what the hell just happened.

If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it.

NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift.tShe opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down.t“Sophia,” he asked. “Could you show me where it went in? I can’t find it.”t“Right there,” she said throwing the other pearl in the river.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

Debasish Mridha

Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

The wise teacher appears, not for the structure of the student; but for the freedom of the people.

Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

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