Quotes About Counsel

God offers us counsel not just for our own safety, but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do.

I can't give you an answer this moment, but let me talk to my advisors and we'll get back to you with more questions.

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.

Oh, dear, thought Meg, married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says. The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests.

Todos los hijos del alba, la prole del alba, no serán de vosotros; sólo los grandes habladores se os abandonarán. Los del Daño, los de la Guerra, los de la Miseria, vosotros que hicisteis el mal, lloradlo. El libro del consejo I SAN JUAN, el Fiador, el que estuvo presente cuando aparecieron por primera vez los mundos; el que dio el sí de la afirmación para que echara a caminar el siglo; uno de los

We are loved by an unending love. We are embraced by arms that find us. Even when we are hidden from ourselves. We are touched by fingers that soothe us. Even when we are too proud for soothing. We are counseled by voices that guide us. Even when we are too embittered to hear. We are loved by an unending love.

Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies

Once before, my daughter,' she said, ignoring Ahmed's continuing ravings, 'your father and I, whatsitsname, said there was no shame in leaving an inadequate husband. Now I say again: you have, whatsitsname, a man of unspeakable vileness. Go from him; go today, and take your children, whatsitsname, away from these oaths which he spews from his lips like an animal, whatsitsname, of the gutter. Take your children, I say, whatsitsname-both your children,' she said, clutching me to her bosom.

On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear d'Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!

Si domandano consigli soltanto per non seguirli, oppure, se si seguono, è per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati.

En général, on ne demande de conseils, disait-il, que pour ne les pas suivre; ou, si on les a suivis, que pour avoir quelqu'un à qui l'on puisse faire le reproche de les avoir donnés.»

Athos, secondo il solito, né lo dissuadeva, né lo incoraggiava. Athos era del parere che bisognava lasciare ad ognuno la sua libera scelta. Non dava mai consigli senza esserne richiesto e bisognava anche chiederglieli due volte. - In generale, - egli diceva, - i consigli si chiedono soltanto per non seguirli, o, se si sono seguiti, per aver qualcuno a cui poter rimproverare d'averli dati.

A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

A word in season is most precious.

Rather, members of collectivist cultures make decisions based on the counsel of elders—parents, aunts or uncles. The highest goal and virtue in this sort of culture is supporting the community. This makes people happy (makarios).