Wisdom Quotes - Page 42

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Be with Allah, You will find Allah with you.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

You only grow when you are alone.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.