Quotes About Wisdom

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.

Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!

Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!

I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand; as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person!

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!

There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

Life ain't complicated unless you complicate it.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

My art and profession is to live.