Quotes About Wisdom

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

Life is short, the art long.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.