Wisdom Life Quotes

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. ~ Blaise Pascal

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human ... We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

It's always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ~ Kevin Brooks

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ~ Morris West

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

All life is an experiment. ~ Ken Liu

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball. ~ Billie Jean King

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. ~ Mikhail Naimy

His Consciousness

To Glorious Wisdom of Love
To the Profound Heart Sound
To Great Awareness of the enlightened few
To Limitless Space of Compassion
To Alertness of Bliss and Emptiness

To the Mind riding on the wind of Light
To Amitaba and Amideva
To Milarepa and Baba Ji
To you my Father and Mother
Whose Merge brought me here
To experience
The Diamond Being
Within the Primordial Consciousness
of One ~ Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. ~ Dr. Seuss

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

We are all surrounded with so much static energy, that it is actually crucial to develop the ability to remove that and to flow through the streams in life that we make - the ones that are not stagnant, the ones that are real, the energy that is flowing and that is real and that is actual. You can get so caught up with what your friends think about your photo on Facebook that you don't realize your loss of ability to actually feel what in fact was going on in that photo. Too often, we stop to smell the flowers in order to show someone that we have stopped to smell the flowers; without actually smelling anything with our noses! This is scary. We live in a scary world. ~ C. JoyBell C.

He was elated by his own profundity. It was as if the gods had conspired that he be full of wisdom. ~ Aporva Kala

There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand. ~ Knut Hamsun

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~ Phillips Brooks

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. ~ Dylan Moran

If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause. ~ Kemi Sogunle

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom ... ~ Ranu Das

Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart. ~ Gina Greenlee

There is no wealth but life. ~ John Ruskin

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. ~ Queen Elizabeth II

Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases ... When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose ... But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life. ~ Andy Andrews

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see. ~ Charles Kingsley

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. ~ Rumi

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless. ~ Nalini Singh

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. ~ Edmund Burke

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. ~ John Wooden

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom. ~ Anne Bradstreet

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ~ Rumi

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. ~ Billy Ray Cyrus

Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it. ~ Jim Stynes

With great hope in their hearts and wholehearted belief in their eyes during each new attempt, they keep on using the same approach over and over again, and always FAIL... Yet every time they expect that somehow a totally different result will magically occur!
They are "stepping on to the same rake," and each time they're surprised and angry when the rake handle hits them on the forehead again. But they keep seeing the reasons for their failures as just another hurtful kick from life - not a result of their own actions, which cause these setbacks. They just keep on blaming the rakes! ~ Sahara Sanders

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ~ Clive Barker

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut. ~ John Berryman

Little by little, one travels far ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. ~ Walter Benjamin

See, the 'small stuff' is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore 'small stuff,' claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- 'small stuff'. ~ Andy Andrews

For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. ~ Lao-Tzu

We can only change life in the country and radically reform society by having God's wisdom, strength and authority ~ Sunday Adelaja

Natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom. ~ Christiane Northrup

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. ~ Libba Bray

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom. ~ Richard Rodriguez

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ~ Socrates

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do. ~ DeWayne Owens

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. ~ Nalini Singh

It's In Applying, Even If Little, That Knowledge Becomes Realization". ~ Venugopal Acharya

Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. ~ William Shakespeare

Man is made out of love and for love. To live in love is to have life, this is God's wisdom. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov

...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road. ~ Garon Whited

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom ~ Jim Rohn

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bending according to circumstances in not weakness, it's wisdom. ~ Saru Singhal

The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible. ~ Angel M.B. Chadwick

When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that is
imposed by others on us. ~ M. Laurie Cantil

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king. ~ Bob Dylan

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough ~ Carlos Luiz Zafon

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. ~ George Jones

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ~ Aesop

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big 'however'- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two. ~ Andy Andrews

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. ~ John Milton

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ~ Phyllis McGinley

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. ~ Paulo Coelho

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them. ~ Kevin Brooks

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. ~ Ken Kesey

How soon you overcome each incident, good or bad happening with you reveals
how deeply you understand life. ~ Deep Trivedi

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238 ~ Leslie Bratspis

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Not every kind of knowledge is good. One must confine one's curiosity to a single direction. ~ Abhaidev

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse. ~ Heraclitus

The tighter your grip, the less you have to hold.
-The Pythian Scrolls ~ Aedan Byrnes

Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. ~ Wislawa Szymborska

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~ Buddha

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us.
Our learning starts as soon as we are born. ~ Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. ~ C. G. Jung

Our lives are the best school in the universe because we all have to face happiness and madness ~ Dalin Shu

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation. ~ Minot Judson Savage

It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul? ~ Sophy Burnham

People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have magic in themselves experience magic at the grocery store. The principle is simple: fun, joy, and happiness, are something we bring to life, not something life, circumstance, or situation bring to us. There are truly no magic kingdoms, only magic people.
Fun, joy and happiness are choices, orientations, approaches, attitudes, a way of living in the world, not the world itself ... ~ David W. Jones

I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see that it is so and cannot be otherwise. I do not blame you, and God is my witness that, seeing you during your illness, I resolved with all my soul to forget everything that had been between us and start a new life. I do not repent and will never repent of what I have done; but I desired one thing - your good, the good of your soul - and now I see that I have not achieved it. Tell me yourself what will give you true happiness and peace in your soul. I give myself over entirely to your will and your sense of justice. ~ Leo Tolstoy

And when Mary nodded, Pauline said, "You'd better hurry then, you know how how is," and laughed to show she would not be married to bald John Keane for all the tea in China. In her laugh was every confidence Mary had ever shared with Pauline about her husband's failings, every unguarded criticism, every angry, impromptu, frustrated critique of his personality, his manners, his sometimes morbid, sometimes inscrutable, sometimes impatient ways. A repository, Pauline and her laugh, for every moment in thier marriage when Mary Keane had not loved her husband, when love itself had seemed a misapprehension, a delusion (a stranger standing outside of Schrafft's transformed into an answered prayer), and marriage
which Pauline had had sense enough to spurn
simply an awkward pact with a stranger, any stranger, John or George, Tom, Dick, or Harry.
A repository, Pauline and her laugh, her knowing eye, for all that Mary Keane should have kept to herself. ~ Alice McDermott

The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed. ~ Anthony Liccione

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. ~ Mark Twain

There is no greater stupidity than for people ... to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life. ~ Karl Marx