Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (2)
Inspirational Quotes about Wisdom

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

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

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Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel

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

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

For those who do not live in fear of scarcity, life is unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous

If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard

A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

Have NO EXPECTATIONS.
Life will not meet your expectations.
Choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie