Quotes About Wisdom

It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.

Everything important we learn too late.

number of years a person lives has nothing to do with whether or not they've lived a full life. Eighty years is a lot of years, I guess, when compared to twenty years. But just because a person has lived a lot of years doesn't mean they've lived a full life.

your head. Sally Kempton

What would you call an insect with a lot of answers? A consult-ant!

There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn't strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but 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.

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

he wished that he had been more faithful as a child in heeding the advice of his boxing teacher. After all, the old masters did know something. There is still a kick in style, and tradition carries a nasty wallop.

In surviving the wave circumstance you learn lessons that you can use to survive the life circumstance.

The things that wound us are the most important things we know

It could mean that some unknowable Spirit ruled the world & directed his actions, or perhaps that he had simply been lucky. Perhaps it meant that the avoidance motive - fear - should be ignored in all-important matters. The Room of Vital Wisdom may be empty, he thought, but shut should not prevent us from going inside.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

Just a little progress is freedom from fear.—Bhagavad Gita

We go mad to become sane sometimes.

Wise adults begin relationships not with the romance phase but with an investigation phase. We check out the other, looking to see if he or she is trustworthy, has the ability to give the five A's, and possesses the qualities that are important to us. Only when we are secure in the knowledge that the other is trustworthy do we open ourselves to letting love happen.

No moment is ever trivial, since any moment points to the exit into enlightenment.

We are not alone in our psychological or spiritual evolution. A higher power than ego, wiser than our intellect and more enduring than our will, kicks in to assist us. Even now, as you read this, many bodhisattvas and saints are gathering to become your mighty companions on your heart's path.

Tanr?m, bana de?i?tirebilece?im ?eyleri de?i?tirmek için cesaret, de?i?tiremeyeceklerimi kabul etmek için sab?r ve ikisini birbirinden ay?rmak için ak?l ihsan eyle. Reinhold Niebuhr

Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke of this encouraging possibility in his address at Harvard Divinity School in 1838: "We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

We all often think about what's easy to think about, rather than what's right to think about.