Quotes About Wisdom

The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the master of the things that try to enslave us.

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed,you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World

And although you have mastered the words, you haven't yet mastered the blank spaces.

When I had all the answers the questions changed

Un guerriero della luce presta attenzione agli occhi di un bambino. Perché quegli occhi sanno vedere il mondo senza amarezza.

To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

Maybe these desert birds could explain to him the meaning of love without ownership.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

When a teacher helps someone to discover something, the teacher always learn something new too.

I already know. And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it's what's happening in my soul.

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again—only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a Warrior of the Light perseveres until the end.

Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

What is a master? I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.

Only when l know, the truth will set me free!

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

In the same way, there is no explanation of life. But there is a reason we are here, and you must be humble enough to accept that. Trust what I say; the life of each human being has a meaning, although he commits the error of spending the greater part of his time on earth seeking an answer, and meanwhile forgets to live.

That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.