Life Wisdom Quotes
The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.
It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Imagination is the connecting line that connects humanity to the other realm to tap from its abundance.