Words Of Wisdom Life Lessons Quotes

Listen to that little voice inside you. Sometimes it can whisper meaningful words of wisdom and make more sense than the deafening noise of opinions and judgements outside. ~ Roopleen

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Every sacred existence is history of time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. ~ Michael Cunningham

It's a pity... to wait for a person to decide that she doesn't need anyone. There is nothing more frightening than someone who doesn't need anybody. Nobody is born that way; but then people make it so. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Love is the soul food! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is better to be still than to speak when you are angry. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Saint or sage or the awakened being is not the one free from all desires and expectations, but the one who has an active conscience to see the real implications of those desires and expectations and then act accordingly for the best possible outcome for the self as well as the society. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind – independent of life. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity ~ Munia Khan

Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death thinking about the chasm that exists between their ideals and their actual reality that they are living. There must be a balance between improvement of one's self and one's circumstances and the acceptance of reality. There is a beautiful dance that one must learn, which involves embracing the reality of your life as you would embrace a Latin dance partner on the ballroom floor, and moving that partner (your reality) in graceful strides, towards where you want to be situated, on that dance floor. If you dance with no partner (your current reality), you will arrive at your destination empty. Empty. That is, if you ever arrive at all. But when you dance with that partner, embracing and accepting it for all of its flaws and its redeeming qualities, you will be able to move across that dance floor as a full, whole person. Wherever you end up stopping in that ballroom, you will stop there as a whole person, not an empty one. So, accept the mistakes that have been done unto you and the mistakes that you have done. Accept the fact that you didn't grow up perfectly and you are not perfect now. Accept, embrace, love the people who are given to you to love. And love yourself just as you are. ~ C. JoyBell C.

I am living life daringly. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every single scar on her soul testifies of the times when she ignored the voice of her spirit ~ Henna Sohail

What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being. ~ Ganga White

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. ~ Ming-Dao Deng

Love is a sacred self. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world needs psychological singularity, that is oneness among humans, not some pompous biotechnological singularity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

May the living have hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings. ~ Kent Haruf

I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities. Imagine the access we would have to different perspectives, the things we might see through other eyes, the wisdom that surrounds us. We don't have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. Imagine how much less lonely the world would be. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

One who loves honey does not have the privilege of hating bees. One who adores roses does not have the privilege of loathing thorns. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Happiness is a sacred bliss. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lie dormant wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman ... ' - Abigail Adams to her son John Quincy Adams, p. 379 ~ Irving Stone

Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The breath of being is been able to share your bread. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten. ~ Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself ― not to Japan, not to anything. You may think that what you're doing is for the sake of the nation, but let something take possession of you like that, and all you do is bring it down. ~ Natsume Sōseki

The truth belongs to the experience, not the attempt of third parties to interpret a story, without knowing the exact incidents, but only one or a few facts. ~ Maria Karvouni

A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Live your greatest dream. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When We Enter The Space Of Eternity, We Feel Sheltered". ~ Venugopal Acharya

Dance bravely into your own heart, and you will find the love of all. ~ Tehya Sky

You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

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

A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover. ~ Bell Hooks

Without a vision, we are easy destructed by the storm's of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't need to doubt yourself – plenty of people will do that for free! ~ Francis Shenstone

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Vampires are real! There are dead people walking among us who are so broken inside they can only truly feel whole by feeding on the life, energy, joy, and happiness of others, all the while taking great pleasure in the pain and destruction they purposefully inflict. The only defense from these vampires is to run away as fast as you can and never look back. ~ Ken Poirot