Wisdom Quotes - Page 109

The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

I live my life in gratitude.

God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.

When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.

Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit.

You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

Compassion is a verb.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.