These wisdom quotes are all from known sources. There is also a page of Wisdom Sayings (from unknown sources) and a condensed version of the two pages on 100 Words Of Wisdom.

Wisdom quotes are listed alphabetically on author’s surname

A Wisdom Quotes

By giving you receive. But to receive is to accept, not to get. It is impossible not to have, but it is possible not to know you have.
A Course In Miracles

Do not accept this little, fenced-off aspect as yourself. The sun and ocean are as nothing beside what you are. The sun beam sparkles only in the sunlight, and the ripple dances as it rests upon the ocean. Yet in neither sun nor ocean is the power that rests in you.
A Course In Miracles

Every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put upon yourself.
A Course In Miracles

Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless of the form it takes.
A Course In Miracles

Everything you perceive is a witness to the thought systems you want to be true.
A Course In Miracles

God is in everything I see. This explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself.
A Course In Miracles

I am as God created me. In this one thought is all the past undone: the present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future.
A Course In Miracles

It is impossible to see what you do not believe.
A Course In Miracles

It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely to accept him as he is.
A Course In Miracles

“Many are called but few are chosen” should be.. “All are called but few choose to listen.”
A Course In Miracles

Perception is consistent. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.
A Course In Miracles

Teach only love, for that is what you are.
A Course In Miracles

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
A Course In Miracles

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source.
A Course In Miracles

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn, presented once again. So where you made a faulty choice before, you can now make a better one. And thus, escape all pain that you chose before has brought you.
A Course In Miracles

What you perceive in others you are strengthening in yourself.
A Course In Miracles

You cannot know your own perfection until you have honoured all those who were created like you.
A Course In Miracles

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love.. And then we return home.
Aboriginal

As you think, you vibrate. And it is your vibrational offering that equals your point of attraction. So what you are thinking and what is coming back to you is always a vibrational match.
Abraham-Hicks

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.
Abraham-Hicks

If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows.
Abraham-Hicks

Mining the moment for something that feels good, something to appreciate, something to savour, something to take in… that’s what your moments are about.
Abraham-Hicks

Non-physical consciousness is here with you all the time.
Abraham-Hicks

The better you feel, the more in alignment you are. The worse you feel the more our of alignment you are.
Abraham-Hicks

The Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.
Abraham-Hicks

The purpose of your life is joy.
Abraham-Hicks

The timing of your death is always chosen by you.
Abraham-Hicks

You are here to create the world around you that YOU choose, while you allow the world as others choose it to be to exist also. And while their choices in no way hinder your choices, your attention to what they are choosing do does affect your vibration, and therefore your own point of attraction.
Abraham-Hicks

You are not here to fix anything because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe.
Abraham-Hicks

Your choice of action may be limited, but your choice of thought are not.
Abraham-Hicks

Your life is right now. It’s not later. It’s not in that time of retirement. It’s not when the lover gets here. It’s not when you’ve moved into the new house. It’s not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now.. Until it gets better right now!
Abraham-Hicks

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719

I don’t really need to stand out, there’s room for everyone.
Adele 1988

I no longer buy papers, or tabloids, or magazines, or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
Adele 1988

Even a God cannot change the past.
Agathon 448BC – 400BC

Accept who you are.. And revel in it.
Mitch Albom 1958

There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Mitch Albom 1958

I am not afraid of storms.. For I am learning to sail my ship.
Louise May Alcott 1832 – 1888

It is a beautiful world.. Consciously put some little bits of it into your memory each day.
James Alexander

In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first.. Change comes after. Shamash Alidina To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H. Almaas 1944 Be strong enough to stand alone. Be yourself enough to stand apart. But be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
Mark Amend

The things you say about others, also say a lot about you.
Mark Amend

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom.
Henri Frederic Amiel 1821 – 1881

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We’re here to learn from each other.
Gillian Anderson 1968

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
Kate Angell

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have laboured in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
Thomas Aquinas 1225 – 1274

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Choice, not chance.. Determines your destiny.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Educating the mind, without educating the heart, is no education at all.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

For the things we have to learn before we can do them.. We learn by doing them.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

He who cannot be a good follower, cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Hope is.. A waking dream.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

If things do not turn out as we wish.. We should wish for them as they turn out.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

It is likely that unlikely things should happen.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought, without accepting it.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

The more you know.. the more you know you don’t know.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
Aristotle 384BC – 322BC

Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Eberhard Arnold 1883 – 1935

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one colour, play in only one key, nor does He make only one star shine onto the Earth.
Eberhard Arnold 1883 – 1935

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
Eberhard Arnold 1883 – 1935

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold 1822 – 1888

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
Isaac Asimov 1920 – 1992

A subtle thought that is in error, may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov 1920 – 1992

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.
Isaac Asimov 1920 – 1992

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov 1920 – 1992

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well.
Isaac Asimov 1920 – 1992

A man who uses his hands is a labourer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. But he who uses his hands, his mind and his heart is an artist.
St Francis of Assisi 11811 – 1226

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
St Francis of Assisi 11811 – 1226

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St Frances of Assisi 1181 – 1226

What we are looking for is.. What is looking.
St Francis of Assisi 11811 – 1226

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St Augustine 354 – 430

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius 121 – 180

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius 121 – 180

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
Marcus Aurelius 121 – 180

B Wisdom Quotes

The aim of all spiritual practice is love.
Sathya Sai Baba 1926

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach 1936

For also knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin

What you are able to think and perceive, defines the limitation of what you are able to achieve.
Richard Bartlett

We didn’t all come over on the same ship, but we’re all in the same boat.
Bernard Baruch 1870 – 1965

Without he desert, there is no oasis.
Abraham Barzali

Information like fruit is already free, if you pluck it directly from the tree.
Bashar-Darryl Anka

When the people will lead, the leaders will follow.
Bashar-Darryl Anka

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706

All you need is love. Love is all you need.
The Beatles

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813 – 1887

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1850

Sometimes you have to close your eyes to see clearly.
Aine Belton

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis 1944

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
Bo Bennett 1972

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere, is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans.. It’s an open mind.
Gail Rubin Bereny

Don’t let your habits become your handcuffs.
Elizabeth Berg 1948

There is no life without consciousness.
There is no consciousness without life.
Annie Besant 1847 – 1933

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.
Shrimad Bhagaratam

And when he sees Me in all and he sees all in Me, then I never leave him and he never leaves Me.
Bhagavad Gita

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares.
Bible

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for he is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.
Bible

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Claudia Black 1972

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.
Black Elk 1863 – 1950

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Black Elk 1863 – 1950

The center of the universe is everywhere.
Black Elk 1863 – 1950

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake 1757 – 1827

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise
William Blake 1770 – 18550

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is.. Infinite.
William Blake 1757 – 1827

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake 1770 – 18550

When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are.. Infinite.
William Blake 1770 – 18550

Leave something for someone, but don’t leave someone for something.
Enid Blyton 1897 – 1968

Children learn more from what you are,
than what you teach.
W.E.B. Du Bois 1868 – 1963

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal plan and purpose.
J. Allen Boone 1882 – 1965

If you want your life to be different, you have to be willing to do something different first.
Kevin Bracy

Until you spread your wings, you will have no idea how far you can fly.
Ray Bradbury 1920

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
Russell Brand 1975

Above all, create something you’re proud of.
Richard Branson 1950

An old belief is like an old shoe.. We so value it for comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
Robert Brault

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
Robert Brault

At one time I saw happiness as a destination and sought a shortcut. Now I see happiness as a road and treasure its every bend.
Robert Brault

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
Robert Brault

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painters eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
Robert Brault

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
Robert Brault

Never mind searching for what you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
Robert Brault

Remember, loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are, and to stop looking outside for yourself.
Robert Brault

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
Robert Brault

Try to discover the road to success and you’ll seek but never find, but blaze your own path and the road to success will trail right behind.
Robert Brault

We find things where we look for them.
Robert Brault

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
Robert Brault

The oyster turns into pearl the sand that annoys it.
Sidney Newton Bremer 1916 – 1980

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson 1901 – 1999

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
Robert Bresson 1901 – 1999

Unbalance so as to re-balance.
Robert Bresson 1901 – 1999

Only take advice from people with lives you like.
Richard Brodie

WARNING: This book contains a live mind virus. Do not read further unless you are willing to be infected. The infection may affect the way you think in subtle or no-so-subtle ways – or even turn your current worldview inside out.
Richard Brodie

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn’t there, but the need is very great.
Rupert Brooke 1887 – 1915

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.
Leon Brown

Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
Les Brown 1945

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother, the next you are all wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown 1948

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown 1948

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.
Pam Brown 1948

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
Pam Brown 1948

Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear and reassuring.
Pam Brown 1948

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
Pam Brown 1948

Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861

My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning 1812 – 1889

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, “If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?” “Why, it stays with me, of course,” the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, “And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse,” he said. “I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you.”
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

Everything that has a beginning has an end. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

Teach this triple truth to all: a generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are things which renew humanity.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye and found by the heart.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

Three things can not be long hidden..
The sun, the moon, the truth.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

You only lose what you cling to.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and today.
Robert Jones Burdette 1844 – 1914

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849 – 1924

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849 – 1924

One religion is as true as another.
Robert Burton 1577 – 1640

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them.
Leo Buscaglia 1924 – 1998

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler 1835 – 1902

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler 1835 – 1902

Don’t go through life.. Grow through life.
Eric Butterworth 1916 – 2003

We are all connected, each and everyone of us has a Soul, and all of our Souls are one, they are all a part of God.
Lorna Byrne 1953

In solitude.. Where we are least alone.
Lord Byron 1788 – 1824

C Wisdom Quotes

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time.
Julia Cameron 1948

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell 1904 – 1987

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
Joseph Campbell 1904 – 1987

When you see the Earth from the moon, you don’t see any divisions of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country we are celebrating. And those are the people we are one with.
Joseph Campbell 1904 – 1987

There are millions of stars, each one shining and burning out at the same time. They die like everything else – you have to appreciate them before they’re gone.
Anna Carey

Time itself is neutral.
Anna Carey

Do not sacrifice upon the alter of your mind the sacred wisdom that rises with each beat of your heart.
Ken Carey

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.
George Carlin 1937 – 2008

Space
Infinite numbers of stars,
Galaxies, dimensions…
Are we the only ones?
Amira

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

Go as far as you can see..
When you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

No pressure.. No diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

Show me the man you honour, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881

My Soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitness of my Soul.
Jim Carrey 1962

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
Carlos Castaneda 1925 – 1998

The Spirit is the life, the mind the builder and the body the result.
Edgar Cayce 1877 – 1945

You must look into people, as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
Lydia Maria Child 1802 – 1880

Virtue maketh men on the Earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the Heavens immortal.
Lydia Maria Child 1802 – 1880

Paradise is not a place, it is a state of consciousness.
Sri Chinmoy 1931 – 2007

For nearly one hundred years we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid – a rock, a tree, your body – is actually 99.999% empty space.
Deepak Chopra 1946

If love is Universal.. No one can be left out.
Deepak Chopra 1946

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.
Deepak Chopra 1946

Attitude is… a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC – 43BC

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC – 43BC

Love should never be the question, it’s the answer.
Robert Clancy

The good old days are now.
Tom Clancy 1947 – 2013

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke 1917 – 2008

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke 1917 – 2008

When your child is talking, turn the world off.
Crystal DeLarm Clymer

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Paulo Coelho 1947

Straight roads do not make skilful drivers.
Paulo Coelho 1947

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho 1947

The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.
Paulo Coelho 1947

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.
Paulo Coelho 1947

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834

Everything has its beauty, but, not everyone sees it.
Confucius 551BC – 479BC

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
Confucius 551BC – 479BC

Seek not every quality in one person.
Confucius 551BC – 479BC

It is not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.
Linda Conway

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.
Ry Cooder 1947

The answer to every problem is to raise your frequency.
Diana Cooper 1940

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings 1894 – 1962

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie 1867 – 1934

D Wisdom Quotes

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (Charlie & The Chocolate Factory)

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990

Let your love out.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (The BFG)

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (Matilda)

“The matter with human beans,” the BFG went on, “is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (The BFG)

Two rights don’t equal a left.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (The BFG)

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (Charlie & The Chocolate Factory)

The answer to life’s questions lies inside you. All you need to do is to look, to listen and to trust your inner voice.
Brian D’Arcy

The quieter you become.. The more you hear.
Ram Dass 1931

Do not fear mistakes.. There are none.
Miles Davis 1926 – 1991

If there’s any message, it is ultimately that it’s okay to be different; that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different colour.
Johnny Depp 1963

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
Johnny Depp 1963

Energy, like you, has no beginning and no end. It can never be destroyed. It is only ever shifting states.
Panache Desai

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imaging the person you want to be someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?
Barry Deutsch

Education is not preparation for life… education is life itself.
John Dewey 1859 – 1952

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Princess Diana 1961 – 1997

You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
Princess Diana 1961 – 1997

Saying nothing.. Sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886

The only thing I know abut love is that love is all there is.
Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller 1917 – 2012

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881

The greatest good you can do for another, is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881

We first make our habits, and then your habits make us.
John Dryden 1631 – 1700

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

Enjoy everything in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place or thing.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

How people treat you is their karma.. How you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It’s a reminder to me that I won’t be taking anything with me. The last I wear won’t need any pockets.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

If you only believe what you see, then you are limited to what’s on the surface. If you only believe what you see, why do you pay your electric bill?
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

If you would like to accomplish something, you must first expect it from yourself.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

Listen to your inner knowings.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world, but, it’s the same world.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

No storm lasts forever.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think is should be.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

The only limits you have are the limits you believe.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

The wisest and most profound teachings on the planet today. (talking about Abraham-Hicks)
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

There is an unchanging spark from the Creator in each of us, our Highest Self, a piece of God, and we are all connected.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

We are all on the same path, we’re just on different places along the path.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

What is real is.. What never changes.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

You’ll see it.. When you believe it.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry van Dyke 1852 – 1933

Who seeks for Heaven alone to save his Soul
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal
While he who walks in love may wander far
But God will bring him where the blessed are
Henry van Dyke 1852 – 1933

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and inbetween does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan 1941

EWisdom Quotes

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Arthur Eddington 1882 – 1944

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Everyone is a genius, but, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

No problem can be solved in the same consciousness that was used to create it.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Reality is merely an illusion.. Albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Each person you interact with is an entire Universe unto themselves, a Divine Being unspeakably precious.
Charles Eisenstein 1967

Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965

Time present and time past, are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.
T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965

Believe in your potential.. Not your past.
Hal Elrod 1979

Need nothing. Enjoy everything. Love all.
Hal Elrod 1979

When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.
Hal Elrod 1979

Who you’re becoming is far more important than what you’re doing, and yet, it is what you’re doing that is determining who you’re becoming.
Hal Elrod 1979

You are where you are because of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.
Hal Elrod 1979

All our progress is an unfolding like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Common sense is genius dressed in it’s working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Real action is in silent moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

The babe by its mother
Lies bathed in joy;
Glide its hours uncounted, –
The sun is its toy;
Shines the peace of all being
Without cloud, in its eyes;
And the sum of the world
In soft miniature lies
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

The wise man in the storm prays God, not from safety from danger, but from deliverance for fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus 55 – 135

Don’t explain your philosophy.. Embody it.
Epictetus 55 – 135

He is a wise man, who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus 55 – 135

We are disturbed, not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.
Epictetus 55 – 135

We have two ears and one mouth, so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus 55 – 135

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus 341BC – 270BC

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripedes 480BC – 406BC

The good and the wise live quiet lives.
Euripedes 480BC – 406BC

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripedes 480BC – 406BC

F Wisdom Quotes

If it be the case that ‘nothing matters’… which is so… then ALL and EVERYTHING is just another experience, no matter HOW / WHAT / WHY / WHEN it takes place… it is just LIFE unfolding throughout EVERY conceivable possibility.
Federation Of Light-Blossom Goodchild

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet, to see who they really are.
Will Ferrell 1967

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin Henry Fischer 1879 – 1962

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
Martin Henry Fischer 1879 – 1962

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.
Martin Henry Fischer 1879 – 1962

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France 1844 – 1924

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France 1844 – 1924

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank 1929 – 1945

Think of all the beauty still left around you, and be happy.
Anne Frank 1929 – 1945

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great places of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790

Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790

How do we stop racism? Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Morgan Freeman 1937

It requires courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm 1900 – 1980

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost 1874 – 1963

Don’t worry that children never listen to you.. Worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum 1937

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Buckminster Fuller 1895 – 1983

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
Buckminster Fuller 1895 – 1983

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller 1895 – 1983

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller 1895 – 1983

You never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller 1895 – 1983

G Wisdom Quotes

You cannot teach a person anything. You can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo 1564 – 1642

An ounze of practice is worth tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948

Like the bee gathering honey from different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures, and sees only the good in all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948

Don’t lose yourself trying to be everything for everyone.
Tony Gaskins 1984

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So relationships is one of the most powerful tools for growth.
Shakti Gawain 1948 – 2018

Always appreciate what you have in this moment..
Before it disappears into something you once had.
Jennifer Gayle

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
Chief Dan George 1899 – 1981

In my Soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.
Papiha Ghosh

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Everything in creation exists within you, and everything in you exists in creation.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

He who stares at the small and near images will have difficulty in seeing and distinguishing those that are great and remote.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep, and the philosophy that does not laugh, and the pride that does not bow its head before a child.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Man’s value is in the few things he creates and not in the many possessions he amasses.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Oratory is the cunning of the tongue over the ear, but eloquence is the joining of the heart with the Soul.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Remembrance is a tripping stone in the path of hope.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

The hungry savage picks a fruit from the tree and eats it. The hungry citizen in civilized society buys a fruit from the one who bought it from another who bought it from him who picked it from the tree.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

The millstone may break down, but the river continues its course to the sea.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundations.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

The sultan of sultans is he who has gained the love of the pauper.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

The tree that contrives to cheat life by living in the shade withers when it is removed and replanted in the sun.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

The truth that needs proof is only half true.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

There is no true wealth beyond a man’s need.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

There is only one Universal religion whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott 1922 – 1973

All you need is time.. And you have it.. NOW.
Neville Goddard 1905 – 1972

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.
Neville Goddard 1905 – 1972

Where knowledge ends.. Feeling and imagination begin.
Neville Goddard 1905 – 1972

Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
Seth Godin 1960

It’s not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1749 – 1832

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith 1730 – 1774

He is truly happy who makes others happy. Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are those who live, who make the best use of their lives, these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
Alban Goodier

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.
Richelle E. Goodrich

It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
Diane Grant

You are connected to everything and everyone else in the Universe.
Pam Grout 1956

Your every thought always affects physical reality.
Pam Grout 1956

Your thoughts are magic. Not one of them goes unheeded by the Universe. Whatever it is you think and feel the great Universal Energy stands up and says, ‘I second it.’
Pam Grout 1956

H Wisdom Quotes

Freedom is a state of mind, not a state of being.
HA-Tony Neate

History is there to be learned from and not lived to.
HA-Tony Neate

We are entering an age in which each individual needs to acknowledge their responsibility to themselves and to every other form of life on this planet. With this kind of openess and respect the future of humankind is unlimited.
HA-Tony Neate

You choose your parents, not primarily for what they are or were, but for the challenges YOU need to help you forward in your evolution.
HA-Tony Neate

An awake heart is like a sky that pours Light.
Hafiz 1325 – 1389

The words you speak become the house you live in.
Hafiz 1325 – 1389

We all suffer. If a man’s wise, he learns from it.
Alex Haley 1921 – 1992

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
Alex Haley 1921 – 1992

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
Alex Haley 1921 – 1992

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.
Thich Nhat Hanh 1926

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh 1926

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh 1926

Sometimes it’s what you don’t have that dictates or guides your life the most.
Mariska Hargitay 1964

Since time is distance in space, time is memory on the structure of space. Without memory, there is no time. Without time, there is no memory. It then follows that the energy that we perceive as the material world must be information, or energy on the structure of space.
Nassim Haramein 1962

What the mind believes, the body expresses.
David R. Hawkins 1927 – 2012

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864

Dreams are the best evidence that we are not as firmly shut in our skins as we believe.
Friedrich Hebbel 1813 – 1863

Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal and the quest for truth must also be eternal.
Max Heindel 1865 – 1919

Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.
Lucas Hellmer

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps 1813 – 1875

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power..
Then the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

For beautiful eyes.. Look for the good in others.
For beautiful lips.. Speak only words of kindness.
And for poise.. Walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993

No man ever steps in the same river twice..
For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus 535BC – 475BC

There is nothing permanent.. Except change.
Heraclitus 535BC – 475BC

All true success flows out of giving something to someone.
Mike Hernacki

True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
Mike Hernacki

You know quite well deep within you that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation and that is called loving.
Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. it’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rains and scorching sun.
Napoleon Hill 1883 – 1970

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill 1883 – 1970

To be a star… You must shine your own light, follow your own path and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Napoleon Hill 1883 – 1970

It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary 1919 – 2008

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates 460BC – 370BC

Hospitality is to be shown even towards an enemy. The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even from the woodcutter.
Hitopadesa, The

Beware of Destination Addiction.. A preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.
Robert Holden 1964

Happiness doesn’t come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.
Robert Holden 1964

People will treat you the way YOU treat you.
Robert Holden 1964

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn’t.
Robert Holden 1964

You are what you seek.
Robert Holden 1964

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus or Emerson.. Have taught man to look within to find God.
Ernest Holmes 1887 – 1960

As moments insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 – 1894

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 – 1894

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell Hooks 1952

When the grandmothers speak.. The Earth will be healed.
Hopi Proverb

Once set out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
Horace 65BC – 8AD

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Horace 65BC – 8AD

Seize the day.
Horace 65BC – 8BC

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe 1853 – 1937

He who does not understand your silence, will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard 1859 – 1915

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard 1859 – 1915

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard 1856 – 1915

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard 1859 – 1915

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard 1856 – 1915

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the greater view?
Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885

Drop the sword, for there is but one flesh to wound, and that is the One flesh of all humankind.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume 1711 – 1776

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressive is music.
Aldous Huxley 194 – 1963

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Huxley 1825 – 1895

I Wisdom Quotes

The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now.
Robert G. Ingersoll 1833 – 1899

There is no comparison between men and women. It is like trying to compare a rose with a jasmine. Each has its own perfume. Women are not equal to men, but then men are not equal to women.
Islamic Saying

J Wisdom Quotes

Children show me in their playful smiles the Divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

I’m going to search for my star until I find it. It’s hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James 1842 – 1910

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The Soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James 1842 – 1910

Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky

Everyone in your life is a ‘practise person.’ How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.
Susan Jeffers 1938 – 2012

Listen to the silence, it has much to say.
Susan Jeffers 1938 – 2012

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
William Jordon

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Joseph (Chief) 1840 – 1904

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961

Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal 55 – 127

K Wisdom Quotes

If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth.. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
Kabir

The river that flows in you, also flows in me.
Kabir

Listen to that tweet from your heartbeat and listen to that chat request from your brain and pay attention to that status update from your body. On a daily basis, befriend yourself.
Gopi Kallayil

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr – 1808 – 1890

All I have is all I need..
And all I need is all I have in this moment.
Byron Katie 1942

It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
Byron Katie 1942

When I walk into a room I know that everyone loves me…
I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.
Byron Katie 1942

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller 1880 – 1968

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller 1880 – 1968

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
Thomas Kempis 1379 – 1471

The more we mature inwardly, the simpler great truths will appear to us, for it is from heaven that we gain understanding.
Thomas Kempis 1379 – 1471

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger, but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Keonig 1774 – 1833

Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.
Miranda Kerr 1983

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Miranda Kerr 1983

In being love.. I give love.
In being joy.. I give joy.
In being happiness..
I give happiness.
Everything I need is within.
Miranda Kerr 1983

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan 1882 – 1927

The difference between darkness and colour is simply a little light.
Sue Krebs

The difference between me and you is that I don’t mind what happens.
Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895 – 1986

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926 – 2004

To love means never to be afraid of the winds storms of life: should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926 – 2004

L Wisdom Quotes

Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.
Dalai Lama 1935

Solitude is the audience chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor 1775 – 1864

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh Latimer 1485 – 1555

Cherish every moment with those you love, at every stage of your journey.
Jack Layton

Do not run away.. Let go. Do not seek.. For it will come when least expected.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

Seeing takes place with the inner mind.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Madeleine L’Engle 1918 – 2007

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay.. It’s not the end.
John Lennon 1940 – 1980

The more real you get.. The more unreal the world gets.
John Lennon 1940 – 1980

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781

They make glorious shipwrecks who are lost in seeking worlds.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781

You can have anything you want providing you first let go of wanting it.
Lester Levenson

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson 1911 – 1980

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. Lewis 1898 – 1963

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes.. but when you look back everything is different.
C. S. Lewis 1898 – 1963

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
C. S. Lewis 1898 – 1963

When hungry.. Eat rice. When tired.. Close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Lin-Chi

Have I not destroyed my enemy, when I have made him into my friend?
Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865

On the road of life.. Meet people where they are. Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are.. Keep walking.
Denise Linn 1950

In a Universe made out of energy, everything is entangled.. Everything is one.
Bruce Lipton 1944

The moment you change your perception, is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.
Bruce Lipton 1944

Your biology is a reflection of your perception.
Bruce Lipton 1944

Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that.. Thoughts.
Allan Lokos

Individual commitment to a group effort.. That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi 1913 – 1970

The man on top of the mountain.. Didn’t fall there.
Vince Lombardi 1913 – 1970

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
Barry Lopez 1945

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a spring day, listening to the murmer of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back to the crowd.
Max Lucado 1955

Realise that true happiness lies within you.
Lucian

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius 99BC – 55BC

The present is too precious to waste.
Rosamund Lupton

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Martin Luther 1483 – 1546

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
Luther Standing Bear (Chief) 1868 – 1939

The world is.. As you are.
David Lynch

M Wisdom Quotes

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught.. But not bought.
Harvey MacKay 1932

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.
Harvey MacKay 1932

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.
Archibald Macleish 1892 -1982

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013

I had to sort of re-invent painting for myself, it seemed sort of more or less impossible but, if you’re determined to keep on going, you know you don’t need to give up because if you subject is your own experience then as long as you’re having an experience you’ve got a subject, and that has turned out to be true, even into total blindness.
Sargy Mann 1937 – 2015

If you hang out with the chickens, you’re going to cluck, and if you hang out with the eagles, you’re going to fly.
Steve Maraboli

Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.
Steve Maraboli

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley 1945 – 1981

One love, one heart.. Let’s get together and feel alright.
Bob Marley 1945 – 1981

Love and Light are one and the same energy, the most powerful force in the cosmos and the key to transforming your world.
Matthew-Suzanne Ward

The power of the mind affects every circumstances in one’s life. What a person believes is her or his reality, however far removed that may be from the facts.
Matthew-Suzanne Ward

We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love.
Somerset Maugham 1874 – 1965

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
John Maxwell

Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004

Patience is.. Clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a Divine rhythm of life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daises to see how the roots are doing.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time.. Because we belong to eternity.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004

While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.
J. P. McEvoy 1895 – 1958

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
E. C. McKenzie

When I loved myself enough.. I became my own authority by listening to the wisdom of the heart. This is how God speaks to me. This is intuition.
Kim McMillan 1996

When I loved myself enough.. I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.
Kim McMillan 1996

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead 1901 – 1978

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead 1901 – 1978

If each person has natural gifts and innate talents, then the true nature of education must involve the Awakening, inviting and blessing of the inner genius and unique life spirit of each young person.
Michael Meade 1944

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger 1893 – 1990

What we learn with pleasure.. We never forget.
Alfred Mercier

Our ideas of God tell us more about ourselves than about Him.
Thomas Merton 1915 – 1968

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Millar

When you stop expecting people to be perfect..
You can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller 1971

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Henry Miller 1891 – 1980

Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things the way they are.
Karen Maezen Miller

There is no path to Happiness.. Happiness is the path.
There is no path to Love.. Love is the path.
There is no path to Peace.. Peace is the path.
Dan Millman 1946

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
A. A. Milne 1882 – 1956

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
A. A. Milne 1882 – 1956

Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969

A girl knows her limits.. But a wise girl knows she has none.
Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962

Not being able to govern events.. I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592

The only thing certain is.. Nothing is certain.
Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu 1689 – 1755

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore 1852 – 1933

Neither gender is superior to or inferior to the other – each has important qualities that are needed to make a complete and balanced whole. That whole is not only much greater than the sum of its individual parts, but much grander than we can possibly comprehend.
Anita Moorjani

We are an expression of Divine Energy.
Anita Moorjani

There is only one rule for being a good talker..
Learn to listen.
Christopher Morley 1890 – 1957

There is only one success..
To be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley 1890 – 1957

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey 1949

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Movies – Harry Potter

It is our choices that describe who we are, much more than our abilities.
Movies – Harry Potter

Never lie, cheat, steal or drink. But.. If you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must chest, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
Movies – Hitch

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Movie – Mulan

The problem is not the problem.. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Movie – Pirates Of The Carribean

You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.
Movie – Pocahontas

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Movies – The Matrix

Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.
Movie – The Neverending Story

You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
Movie – The Wizard Of Oz

When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the Universe.
John Muir 1838 – 1914

As the number of old people will grow, the world will gain in wisdom.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Each day of life is precious even incredibly precious: therefore write the history of each day. Keep a journal. Preserve your life. Journal keeping should be taught in all schools of Earth.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Each one of us is a temple of God
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Every human being has stories to tell. Please tell them. They are part of the bloodstream of our cosmic journey, the transmission of our experience and wisdom to our descendants.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Humans will not admire my bank account after my death, but they might admire me for the person I was, for my writings, my achievements, my efforts, the messages I left.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

In the new age, morality and spirituality must catch up with science and materialism.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Learn proverbs. Speak in proverbs. Teach with proverbs. They are humanity’s most condensed form of wisdom.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Look who is still best remembered by humankind and who has still the largest number of followers. Is it politicians? No. Is is conquerors? No. Is it rich people? No. Is it scientists? No. But remembered are philosophers, religious prophets, great visionaries, saints and artists. This should give us a clue to the most permanent human values.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Love is the motor of perfect life.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Love the road of your life. There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

My physical body may be less efficient and less beautiful in old age. But God has given me an enormous compensation: my mind is richer my Soul is broader and my wisdom is at a peak. I am so happy with the riches of my advance peak age that contrary to Faust, I would not wish to return to youth.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Never cease to learn life from yourself and from others. Write it all down to perfect yourself and to impart your wisdom to those who will follow.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

No university on Earth gives master’s degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Observe your children closely: they have often fundamental approaches and answers to the mysteries of life which we have lost as adults.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Older people are closer to God. Therefore, they are better transmitters of wisdom and spirituality.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Open your heart.. That is where your genius is.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Speak the language of the heart. Its warmth penetrates deeper than cold intelligence.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Tell me who your heroes are and I will know who you are.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

The Earth is a macrocosm of each individual and each individual is a microcosm of the Earth. Humanity is the macrocosm of each individual and each individual is a microcosm of humanity.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

The negativism and unhappiness of human society is organized on a colossal scale by those who benefit from them.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

The richest product of advance, old age is wisdom and story telling.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

The sand of my life is running out.. Is it white, black or golden sand?
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

There is often a great strength in stillness: a fallow land recuperates its energy.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your heart. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

To receive thoughts can be as important as to think.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Use the freest goods for happiness… The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

We are all co-responsible for this planet.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

We are all passengers on the same planet sailing towards eternity on the vast ocean of the Universe.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

We do not see the world as it is.. We see it as we are taught to see it. The same is generally true of our view of humanity, of the Universe, of history and of ourselves. Free yourself, escape from the possible falsehoods.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

We just have to remember that we are one people and this is one world.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

Wise elderly persons should become gurus. The teaching of wisdom should be the main function of the third age. We should create third age universities or at least faculties.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

You will never be really happy if you don’t understand that producers and merchants must constantly create new unhappiness in order to sell more goods and new goods to you.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

N Wisdom Quotes

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
Mikhail Naimy 1889 – 1988

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.
Mikhail Naimy 1889 – 1988

Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of man.
Mikhail Naimy 1889 – 1988

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
Mikhail Naimy 1889 – 1988

Listen to the wind.. It talks. Listen to the silence.. It speaks. Listen to your heart.. It knows.
Native American

The soul would have no rainbow If the eye had no tears.
Native American

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors
We borrow it from our children.
Native American

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
Native American – Arapaho

When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Native American – Arapaho

Listen! Or your tongue will make you deaf.
Native American – Cherokee
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.

Native American – Cheyenne

Our first teacher is our own heart.
Native American – Cheyenne

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
Native American – Dakota

Wisdom comes when you start living the life the Creator intended for you.
Native American – Hopi

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past. Wisdom is of the future.
Native American – Lumbee

Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.
Native American – Shawnee

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 Neibuhr 1892 – 1971

If you are doing things in order to be happy.. You’re doing them in the wrong order.
Michael Neill

The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
Mark Nepo 1951

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton 1643 – 1727

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
Isaac Newton 1643 – 1727

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph Fort Newton 1880 – 1950

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
Friedrich Nietzche 1844 – 1900

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way.. It does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900

The miracle is this.. The more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy 1931 – 2015

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.
Isaac of Nineveh 680

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.
Christiane Northrup 1949

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief becomes your biology.
Christiane Northrup 1949

True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.
Christiane Northrup 1949

Your beliefs are stronger than your genes.
Christiane Northrup 1949

O Wisdom Quotes

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. to someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
Cynthia Occelli

We met for a reason, either you’re a blessing or a lesson.
Frank Ocean 1987

Wisdom is the way that you learn to decipher the unknown; and the unknown is our closest companion. So wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown, of being able to decipher and recognize its treasures.
John O’donohue 1956 – 2008

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver 1935 – 2019

Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness.. It took me years to understand that, this too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver 1935 – 2019

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great Being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.
Yoko Ono 1933

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
James Openheim

Take rest.. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid 43BC – 17AD

P Wisdom Quotes

Days are like scrolls..
Write on them what you want to be remembered.
Bachya ibn Pakuda

You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.
Chuck Palahniuk 1962

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
John De Paola

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.
Tony Parsons

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton 1946

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover, than by those given to us.
Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662

The first hour is the rudder of the day.
Steve Pavlina 1971

No matter how dark it is..
When you turn on one light, darkness cannot exist.
Norman Vincent Peale 1898 – 1993

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale 1898 – 1993

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other, but choose to live with each other.
M. Scott Peck 1936 – 2005

It’s okay to change your route. Along the way of walking your current path, isn’t it rather exciting to think: I have found something more interesting, more fantastic, more me.
Anna Pereira

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.
Ethel Person 1934 – 2012

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Jodi Picoult 1966

Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
Wilbur Pierce

Ideas are flights of fancy that change the world.
Wilbur Pierce

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present moment is our only reality.
Robert M. Pirsig 1928

The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.
Frank Pittman 1953 – 2012

Geometry will draw the Soul toward the truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
Plato 429BC – 347BC

Is that which is Holy loved by the Gods because it is Holy, or is it Holy because it is loved by the Gods?
Plato 429BC – 347BC

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole. For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato 429BC – 347BC

Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Plato 429BC – 347BC

Sometimes you become stronger just by turning around and walking away.
Linda Poindexter

Today is the best day of your life.
The only thing that will change that is… tomorrow.
Linda Poindexter

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope 1688 – 1714

The minute anyone expresses the least aggression or unkindness to you, respond with a blessing. Bless them totally, sincerely, joyful. For such blessings are a shield which protects them from the ignorance of their misdeed, and deflects the arrow that was aimed at you.
Pierre Pradervand

In the end, it is important to remember that, we can not become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.
Max de Pree

We are actors in a play who have forgotten they are in a play.
Swami Premodaya

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.
Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977

Those who wish to sing.. Always find a song.
Proverb

To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
Proverb

The secret to living well and longer is…
Eat half. Walk double. Laugh triple.
And love without measure.
Proverb Tibetan

There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras 570BC – 495BC

R Wisdom Quotes

If you clean the floor with love, you have given the world an invisible painting.
Osho Rajneesh 1931 – 1990

There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.
Osho Rajneesh 1931 – 1990

We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud (Chief) 1822 – 1909

Once you choose hope.. Anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve 1952 – 2004

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel

Be true to what matters most to your heart.
Cheryl Richardson 1964

Remain calm.
A breakthrough is often preceded by a breakdown.
Cheryl Richardson 1964

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.
Cheryl Richardson 1964

The more sand has escaped from the hour glass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul Richter 1763 – 1825

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone cutter hammering away at a rock, perhaps a hundred times, without so much as a crack showing in it. But at the one hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis 1849 – 1914

Our heart always transcends us.
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
Anthony Robbins 1960

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
Anthony Robbins 1960

Most people treat a belief as if it’s a real thing, when it’s actually nothing but a feeling of certainty about what something means.
Anthony Robbins 1960

To make profound changes in your life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
Anthony Robbins 1960

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
Anthony Robbins 1960

Your past does not equal your future.
Anthony Robbins 1960

When parents say ‘I’m sorry,’ they are saying so much more.
Kate Roberts

When you realise that there is more happening here than appears on the surface, you will start being able to perceive some of the answers that reflect the presence of Spirit.
John Roger

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will Rogers 1879 – 1935

Possibilities do not add up, they multiply.
Paul Romer 1955

A woman is like a teabag.. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962

Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945

Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong.. You recognize it.
Rene Rose

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778

Be immune to others opinions..
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
Don Miguel Ruiz 1952

Close both eyes and see with the other eye.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Do not feel lonely.. The entire Universe is inside you.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Listen with ears of tolerance.
See through eyes of compassion.
Speak with the language of love.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Look for the answer inside your question.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Love is the Soul’s light.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Respond to every call that excites your Spirit.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Set your life on fire.. Seek those who fan your flames.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

The Soul has been given it’s own ears to hear things that the mind does not understand.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

There is a voice that doesn’t use words.. Listen.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re dancing to it nevertheless.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

What comes will go. What is found, will be lost again. But, what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. You are it.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

What strikes the oyster does not damage the pearl.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

You are searching the world for treasure.. But the real treasure is yourself.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the moon. That moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest of moment into a gracious gift.
Margaret Lee Runbeck 1905 – 1956

When love and skill work together.. Expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin 1819 – 1900

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases us is called beautiful.
Leo Rusten 1908 – 1997

S Wisdom Quotes

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 – 1944

Wisdom is to the Soul what health is to the body.
De Saint-Real

Sow the seeds of truth and one day they will grow and become the flowers of understanding.
SaLuSa-Mike Quinsey

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana 1947

The Earth has music for those who listen.
George Santayana 1863 – 1952

Our fathers had their dreams, we have ours, the generation that follows will have its own.
Olive Schreiner 1855 – 1920

Eventually all things fall into place, until then.. Laugh at the confusion, life for the moments and know everything happens for a reason.
Albert Schweitzer 1875 – 1965

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
George Scialabba

Day and night cannot dwell together. Your religion was written on tables of stone, ours was written on our hearts.
Seattle (Chief) 1780 – 1866

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of this Earth is sacred to my people.
We are part of the Earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.
Seattle (Chief) 1780 – 1866

Even while they teach.. Men learn.
Seneca 4BC – 65AD

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Seneca 4BC – 65AD

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
Seneca 4BC – 65AD

It’s not because things are difficult, that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture, that they are difficult.
Seneca 4BC – 65AD

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality.
Seneca 4BC – 65AD

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.
Seth-Jane Roberts 1929 – 1984

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr Seuss 1904 – 1991

Think left and think right and think low and think high, oh, the things you can think up if only your try.
Dr Seuss 1904 – 1991

Why fit in when you were born to stand out.
Dr Seuss 1904 – 1991

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
Gail Sheehy 1937

Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that’s the only time everything will be okay.
Michael Singer

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles 1812 – 1904

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles 1812 – 1904

Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.
Will Smith 1968

Greatness exists in all of us.
Will Smith 1968

If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you are wasting time. Your life will become better by making other people’s lives better.
Will Smith 1968

Money and success don’t change people.. They merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith 1968

Stop letting people who do so little for you, control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.
Will Smith 1968

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Will Smith 1968

To the world you may just be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
Brandi Snyder

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman 1889 – 1970

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates 470BC – 399BC

He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.
Socrates 470BC – 399BC

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates 470BC – 399BC

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates 470BC – 399BC

Love yourself first. You can’t pour from an empty vessel.
Susan Somerset-Webb

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark 1918

All of us, every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg 1946

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.
Rupert Spira 1960

Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.
Rupert Spira 1960

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.
Standing Bear (Chief) c.1829 – 1908

This hand is not the color of yours, but if you pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be the same color as yours. I am a man. God made us both.
Standing Bear (Chief) c.1829 – 1908

Don’t push the river, it flows by itself.
Barry Stevens 1902 – 1985

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard 1837

I want to feel my life while I’m in it.
Meryl Streep 1949

To search for God with logical proof is like searching for the sun with a lamp.
Sufi Proverb

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.
Taylor Swift 1989

Just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t beautiful.
Taylor Swift 1989

The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.
Taylor Swift 1989

There are so many ways, different ways, someone can be beautiful.
Taylor Swift 1989

Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful. You don’t have to be like everyone else.
Taylor Swift 1989

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you keep thinking about yesterday.
Taylor Swift 1989

You need to be happy with yourself or you’ll never be able to be happy in a relationship.
Taylor Swift 1989

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1893 – 1986

T Wisdom Quotes

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise, therefore it is near the eternal.
Tao Te Ching

Everything I hope to be.. I already am.
Everything I hope to do.. I already can.
Everything I hope to have.. I already do.
Everything you see in me.. Is a reflection of you.
Anna Taylor

You are a Divine Being connected to a constant flow of love and wisdom. Trust your magnificence.
Anna Taylor

There are as many opinions as there are people..
Each has his own correct way.
Terence c. 190BC – 159BC

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We only have today.. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997

If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core form which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade that in all the previous centuries of existence.
Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943

It’s never too late in fiction or in life to revise.
Nancy Thayer

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

All men are children, and of one family.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

As a single footstep will not make a path on the Earth, so a single thought will not make a single pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

As you simplify your life, the laws of the Universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Beauty is where it is perceived.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Being is.. the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

It is not enough to be busy.
The question is.. What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

It takes two to speak truth..
One to speak and another to listen.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Man emulates Earth.
Earth emulates Heaven.
Heaven emulates The Way.
The Way emulates Nature.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Many men go fishing all of their lives..
Without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Men are not so much the keepers of herds, as herds are the keepers of men.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

That government is best which governs the least.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Thaw, with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

The man who goes alone can start today. But he who travels with another, must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

The meeting of two eternities, the past and the future.. Is precisely the present moment.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more – a man sees only what concerns him.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

There is no beginning too small.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know.. That is true knowledge.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich 1886 – 1965

Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.
Tilopa 988 – 1069

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
Tilopa 988 – 1069

Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.
Tilopa 988 – 1069

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
Tilopa 988 – 1069

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973

Not all who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973

Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Eckhart Tolle 1948

To meet everything and everyone through stillness, instead of mental noise, is the greatest gift you can offer the Universe.
Eckhart Tolle 1948

You create a good future by creating a good present.
Eckhart Tolle 1948

You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Eckhart Tolle 1948

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
Thomas Traherne 1636 – 1674

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra Trentor

Real is just a matter of perception.
TV – Fringe

Sometimes its in the quiet that we hear the loudest things.
TV – Good Witch

We all live on in the differences we make.
TV – Good Witch

Life is about these moments, these pieces of time, these slices of life that flash by.. But they stay in your heart forever.
TV – Life In Pieces

Space and time and thought aren’t the separate things they appear to be.
TV – Star Trek Next Generation

There are things we do not understand and yet they exist non the less.
TV – Star Trek Next Generation

Thought is the basis of reality. The energy of thought, to put it in your terms, is very powerful.
TV – Star Trek Next Generation

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody has said it before him.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910

Great people make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910

Your journey has moulded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the NOW. And Now is the right time.
Asha Tyson

All things in the world come from Being.
And Being comes from non-being.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Be really whole.. And all things will come to you.
Lao Tzu 600BC

By letting go… it all gets done.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Health the greatest possession.
Confidence the greatest friend.
Lao Tzu c.600BC

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu c.600BC

I thought I knew you, but it was only me. The you that you truly are is not the you I see. My mind has formed your image, but you have already travelled on. I want to see only you, but I see you through me.
Lao Tzu 600BC

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu 600BC

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Let it be still.. And it will gradually become clear.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu c.600BC

Nature does not hurry.. Yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu c.600BC

One cannot reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu 600BC

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu 600BC

The Sage sees the world as an expansion of his own self. So what need has he to accumulate things?
Lao Tzu 600BC

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao Tzu 600BC

To become learned.. Each day add something.
To become enlightened.. Each day drop something.
Lao Tzu 600BC

To lead people.. Walk behind them.
Lao Tzu 600BC

To see things in the seed.. That is genius.
Lao Tzu 600BC

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and Earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Lao Tzu 600BC

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
Lao Tzu c.600BC

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu c.600BC

V Wisdom Quotes

Time…
The one asset none of us are ever going to get more of.
Gary Vaynerchuk 1975

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo de Vinci 1452 – 1519

Principles For The Development Of A Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses, especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519

Love conquers all things.. Let us too give in to love.
Virgil 70BC – 19BC

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
Virgil 70BC – 19AD

They can because they think they can.
Virgil 70BC – 19AD

Blessed if you do.
Blessed if you don’t.
Blessed no matter what!
Doreen Virtue

What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in disguise.
Doreen Virtue

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire 1694 – 1778

W Wisdom Quotes

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker 1944

Time.. Moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker 1944

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own Soul.
Alice Walker 1944

In the absence of that which you are not,
that which you are, is.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943

Mine is always your highest thought, your clearest word, your grandest feeling. Anything else is from another source. The highest thought is always that thought which contains joy. The clearest words are those words that contain truth. The grandest feeling is that feeling you call love.
Neale Donald Walsh 1943

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943

See the world with the innocence of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be.
Neale Donald Walsh 1943

There are no victims in the Universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this.
Neale Donald Walsh 1943

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.
Neale Donald Walsh 1943

Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else’s words about anything that is really important… like God, for instance, or love, or whatever is true about another.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943

You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it. You are creating your reality every minute.
Neale Donald Walsh 1943

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
J. Donald Walters 1926 – 2013

There are realities that we all share, regardless of our nationality, language or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment.. Love, Kindness, Appreciation and Support from others.
J. Donald Walters 1926 – 2013

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service and character.
William Arthur Ward 1921 – 1994

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward 1921 – 1994

Today is a most unusual day because we have never lived it before, we will never live it again, it is the only day we have.
William Arthur Ward 1921 – 1994

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915

If you want to life yourself up.. Lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915

God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

I’ll tell you what hermits realise.. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realise that they are one and the same process as the Universe.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

The future is a concept, it does not exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be because time is always NOW.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky.. You look in you.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973

I remember a saying my father put in my autograph book when I was a child.. You were born and original, don’t become a copy.
Pauline Webb

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946

If you want a happy ending..
That depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles 1915 – 1985

Sometimes the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone 1944 – 2002

We all do better, when we all do better.
Paul Wellstone 1944 – 2002

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John Whitehead

So many Gods, so many creeds
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 – 1919

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder 1897 – 1975

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Forgiveness strengthens two Souls.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Hidden paths can’t be walked without moving obstacles.
Anthony Douglas Williams

If we seek a positive outcome,
we must begin with a positive attitude.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Life is the best teacher.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Mingle often with good people to keep your Soul nourished.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Not a single creature on Earth has more or less right to be here.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Our purpose is simple.. To Love.
To Love each other, to Love all life and to Love our Earth.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Re-energize your Soul.. Walk with Mother Nature.
Anthony Douglas Williams

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
Anthony Douglas Williams

There are places on Earth where we can catch a glimpse of Heaven.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Travel the road of Love and you will never be lost.
Anthony Douglas Williams

Truth seeks Light, lies seek shadows.
Anthony Douglas Williams

What would you think if all your thoughts reached Heaven?
Anthony Douglas Williams

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson 1952

Follow your instincts.
That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey 1954

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey 1954

Come what may.. And love it.
Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917 – 2008

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.
Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917 – 2008

Each choice has a consequence.
Each consequence a destination.
Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917 – 2008

Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.
Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917 – 2008

A person could be your compass, but never your Universe.
Rachel Wolchin

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.
Rachel Wolchin

In life, you’ll meet two kinds of people.. The ones who build you up and the ones who tear you down. In the end, you’ll thank them both.
Rachel Wolchin

Loving someone can blind you, just as easily as losing then can open your eyes.

Rachel Wolchin
We can’t control the filters that others choose when they look at us.
Rachel Wolchin

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941

If you can’t add to the discussion, don’t subtract by talking.
Lois Wyse 1926 – 2007

Repeat nothing, absolutely nothing, that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse 1926 – 2007

Y Wisdom Quotes

Once you remember who you are, a Divine Being of the Universal Light of Grace, then you can no longer see others the same, for they too are a Divine piece of the same Source.
Shelley Yates

Everything we do affects other people.
Adam Yauch 1964 – 2012

I think every person has the ability to effect change. Every one of us affects the world constantly through actions – through our every thought, our every word, the way that we interact with people. We’re constantly affecting the world.
Adam Yauch 1964 – 2012

It’s pretty easy to see that wealth doesn’t equal happiness.
Adam Yauch 1964 – 2012

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939

Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young 1683 – 1765

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young

This is what my Soul is telling me…
Be peaceful and love everyone.
Malala Yousafzai 1997

Z Wisdom Quotes

Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Zen Paradigm

You don’t have to be great to start.. But you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar 1926 – 2012

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