Wisdom


Inspirational Quotes and Wisdom02 May 2008 03:18 am

Some inspirational wise quotes and sayings.

“The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?”
~Oprah Winfrey

“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.”
~The Buddha

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
~Chinese Proverb

“You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.”
~Chinese Proverb

“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.”
~Albert Camus

” Do thy work in the peace of Yoga and, free from selfish desires, be not moved in success or in failure. Yoga is an evenness of mind, a peace that is ever the same.”
~Bhagavad Gita

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I’m very proud that I’m smart enough to get to the point.”
~Harry Truman

“While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.”
~Doug Horton

” No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less”
~Edgar Watson Howe

“All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.”
~Epictetus

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.”~
Leonardo Da Vinci

“Whatever you are be a good one.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”
~Woody Allen

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” ~William James

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom19 May 2007 02:38 am

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.”~ Philip James Bailey

“The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”~ Abraham Maslow

“Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”~ Emily Dickinson

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.”~ William Newton Clark

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn’d!” ~Homer

“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”~Sir William Osler

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”~ C.S. Lewis

“O welcome pure-ey’d Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!” ~John Milton

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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