Quotes About Wisdom

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.