Wisdom Quotes - Page 120

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Trifles make the sum of life.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.