Quotes About Wisdom

How complete, whole, undivided seeing comes about is a mystery. Any formulation or method we invent will eventually get in our way. It's as if everything we learn must be instantly left behind.

During the last year she was alive, at age 95, my mother said many times, "It's so freeing to realize that nothing really matters." She said it joyously, with relief, as if a burden had been lifted. She also said over and over, "Love yourself.

Well, I am going on 83 now but not about to quit. There are too many things I know about where I want to see what happens. You, my dear, being one of them, and this new century starting. Do what you can to make it good. And remember, as we used to say, that life is like a pudding: it takes both the salt and the sugar to make a really good one.

A reader lives 1000 lives before he dies.

Angels are speaking to all of us ... some of us are only listening better. -ANONYMOUS

by the age of six he had realized that] it was useless to behave and maybe also to believe

Joanna Campbell Slan

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Naturally the main reference is to Solomon's seven pillars of wisdom,' said Anthony. I saw he was smiling, broadly by now. 'These signify the seven sephiroth of the supra-celestial world, which are the seven measures of the fabric of the celestial and inferior worlds, in which are contained the Ideas of all things both in the celestial and inferior worlds. This should be clear?' I said it was completely clear as anything.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

It wasn't personal—more of a "been there, done that, got my lifetime supply of psychological trauma" kind of thing.

La madurez consiste en saber posponer el placer inmediato para conseguir mejorar la situación a largo plazo.

Grave Senators should never let Their angry passions rise, Their little hands were never made To scratch each other's eyes.52

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

ste rosario de cuentas infelices calla más de lo que dice pero dice la verdad.

Man is...a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

I even thought her heart taught me something, in spite of its inexperience, or perhaps precisely because of it, for in matters of love one unlearns with practice, and the novice is the learned one.

The only real elegance is in the mind; If you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Fearing the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.)

I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.