Daily Inspiration | Motivational Articles | Being Strong Quotes | Positive Quotes | Links-2 | About
Wisdom Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Wisdom
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Related topics: Spiritual Live-By Positive Inspirational Motivational Buddhist Intention Deep Think
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below.
Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way.
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
There are 21 pages of Wisdom Quotes: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
