Wisdom Quotes - Page 10

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept - And even if You drive me from your door, I swear again that we will never be separated - Because You are alive in my heart

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Common sense is not so common.

Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold All of them worship out of fear of the fire � And consider deliverance abundant good fortune - Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers Of gardens or fire I have no opinion I seek no exchange for my dearest love

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Money should be used to help others.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.