Quotes and sayings about tag  #wisdom

Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

352 Quotes

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Dejan Stojanovic

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

Desmond Tutu

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

Dorothy Parker

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

When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

Dr. Seuss

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The past has no power over the present moment.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

Eckhart Tolle

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Eckhart Tolle

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

Eckhart Tolle

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey

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

Elbert Hubbard

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Emily Brontë

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Erasmus

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Eric Berne

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Eric Idle

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Euripides

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

Evanescence

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Eve Ensler

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Frank Herbert

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

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

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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