Wisdom Quotes - Page 16

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden. If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me. Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa]. To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada] And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.