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Quotes About Wisdom

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
~ Dana Plato
Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
~ David Brin
One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.
~ David Rakoff
You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.
~ Diogenes Laertius
What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
~ Dorothy Day
A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.
~ Doug Larson
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!
~ Dr. Seuss
I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.
~ Ed Asner
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
~ Epictetus
It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.
~ Ethan Hawke
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
~ Ethel Waters
But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.
~ G. Edward Griffin
Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.
~ Gary Cole
Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
~ Gautama Buddha
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
~ Gautama Buddha
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
~ George H. W. Bush
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
~ Gloria Steinem
The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
~ Guy Finley
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
~ Haruki Murakami
Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.
~ Helen McCrory