Wise Words
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May these Wise Words inspire you to never give up and keep working towards your goals. Who knows—success could be just around the corner.
Wisdom is being true to our inner self – thus bringing harmony and peace into our lives. It’s discovering a new idea or solution that meets everyone’s needs.
LIFE is a verb. – Buckminster Fuller
Life is very short And there’s no time for fighting and fussing my friends. – The Beatles
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never let the weeds get higher Than the garden. – Tom Waits
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. – Louis Adamic
Have as your goal to do your best and to make a difference. We are in the world to make a difference, and everything we do changes the world. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
I do not know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer
The lot of the many is to have as a profession, for the earning of their living and the satisfaction of society’s claim on them, a more or less soulless labor in which they can give out little or nothing of their human qualities, because in that labor they have to be little better than human machines. ;Yet no one finds himself in the position of having no possible opportunity of giving himself to others as a human being. …No fate can prevent a man from giving to others this direct human service side by side with his lifework. If so much of such service remains unrealized, it is because the opportunities are missed. – Albert Schweitzer
The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda
Was it something I will see in the future” I asked? There’s no future!” he exclaimed cuttingly. The future is only a way of talking. For a sorcerer there is only the here and now. – Carlos Castaneda
The worst prison would be a closed heart. – Pope John Paul II
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. – Charlie Brown
There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there. – Colonel Sanders
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection: Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action– Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. – Rabindranath Tagore
God admires us not for what we do but for how much love we put into what we do. Together let us build a chain of love around the world. – Mother Teresa
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. – Mother Teresa
We cannot all do great things.But we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
The idea is that you have to WIN and be nonviolent You’ve got to be nonviolent – and you’ve got to win with nonviolence. – Cesar Chavez
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. I don’t much care where — said Alice. Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. — so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, if you only walk long enough. – Alice in Wonderland
Intellectuals try not to drown, while the whole purpose of love is drowning. – Rumi
As selfishness and complaint pervert cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure. – John Lennon
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love”. … – Martin L. King, Jr.
The more I study the world,The more I am convinced of the inability of Brute force to create anything durable. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
Breathe when you breathe, Walk where you walk. talk when you talk, cry when you cry, die when you die, let go when you let go… – Allen Ginsberg
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. – Herman Melville
The recognition of the life of every man as sacred is the first and only basis of all ethics. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. – Leo Tolstoy
Life is not the result of the evolution of matter. Life is of another kind. Matter alone can’t produce life. I look to nature and to the Spirit who is living in everything. – Marc Deneyer
What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity. – Oscar Wilde
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. – Sigmund Freud
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. – George Gurdjieff
Eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Sherlock Holmes
The Internet is a vibration of where we’re going now. Welcome to the next millennium – you’ve got to get on it or you’re going to be like the dinosaur. – Carlos Santana
Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it. – Aldous Huxley
Through his power to survey his life, man can transcend the immediate events which determine him. Whether he has tuberculosis or is a slave like the Roman philosopher Epictetus or a prisoner condemned to death, he can still in his freedom choose how he will relate to these facts. And how he relates to a merciless realistic fact like death can be more important for him than the fact of death itself. – Rollo May
You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also. – Kahlil Gibran
There can be no justice when laws are absolute. Life itself is an exercise in exceptions. – Jean-Luc Picard
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke