91 Quotes

“Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.”

― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

 “Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!”

― C. JoyBell C.

 “He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”

― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

 “She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.”

― Nicholas Sparks

 “The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.”

― Brett Harris

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

 “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”

― Oscar Wilde

 “Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ”

― George Washington

 “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

 “But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

                                                                                                                                                                     

 “Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”

― Beth Johnson

 “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

― Karl Popper

 “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

― Brian Tracy

“I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki”

― Natsuki Takaya

 “The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way  a lot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”

― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game: Collector's Edition

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...

But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'

There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”

― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

 “Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.”

― Xiaolu Guo

 “Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.”

― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

 “True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko”

― Natsuki Takaya

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

 “To become one who believes two become one, you need love in your life.”                                  12

“She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?”

― Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic

 “At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

 “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

― Brian Tracy

 “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

― Karl Lagerfeld

 “We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.”

― Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

 “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”

― Socrates

“I may be alive now, but in a series of moments I won’t be. And let it be said about me: He didn’t waste his time talking to conch shells, but he did listen to what they had to say about the ocean.”

― Jarod Kintz

 “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

― Desiderius Erasmus

 “With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.”

― Johnny Depp

 “It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

― William Saroyan

 “And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ”

― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country

 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

― John Dewey                                                                                                                                   12

 “When you make a choice, you change the future.”

― Deepak Chopra

 “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

― Socrates

 “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

― Walt Whitman

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

 “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

― Alexander Pope

 “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 “Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.”

― Paulo Coelho

 “Chase away sorrow by living”

― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

 “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them”

― Harold J. Smith

 “Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

― C.S. Lewis

 “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

― Kahlil Gibran

 “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”

― C.G. Jung

 “The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. ”

― C.S. Lewis

 “If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that

you want to be like.”                                                                                                                           14

 “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”

― Karl Lagerfeld

 “The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”

― Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor

 “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you

help others, the more they will want to help you.”

― Brian Tracy

“The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”

(Analects 2.11)”

― Confucius

 “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: For wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”

― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

 “well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.”

― Charlotte Brontë

“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much

Just remember two main rules for the beginning:

You better starve, than eat whatever

And better be alone, than with whoever.”

― Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat

 “You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.”

― Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl

 “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

― Oscar Wilde                                                                                                                       10

“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.

Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

 “Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."

As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”

― Lorraine Heath, Surrender to the Devil

 “I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”

― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

 “I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ”

― Marilyn Manson

“My next breath may very well be in your lungs. Store it wisely, because my life depends on it.
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― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

 “Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.”

― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye        

                       

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

― Elbert Hubbard

 “He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.”

― Lao Tzu

 “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”

― Gary L. Francione                                                   10

 “What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.

Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.

This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. ”

― Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

 “It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”

― Jaeda DeWalt

 “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”

― Isaac Asimov

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”

― Gary L. Francione

 “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”

― Deepak Chopra

 “God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.”

― Merritt Y. Hughes, Ten Perspectives on Milton

 “We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

 “I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”

― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

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 “There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”

― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

 “When in doubt, choose to live.”

― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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 “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. [Verse 223]”

― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”

― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

 “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 “If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.”

― Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

 “You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”

― Viggo Mortensen

 “Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”

― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

 “Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

― Douglas Coupland

 “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”

― Brian Tracy

 “Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

 “I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's

greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending

commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may

sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their

dreams from those who live in regret.”

― Anthony Robbins

 “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

― Brian Tracy

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