Wisdom Quotes - Page 32

• Everything is hard before it is easy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

  Horace

  Wise, Cages, Back Again

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Art, Men

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• When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Meaningful, Yoga, Book

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• There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Addiction

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

  Richard Bach

  Failure, Learning, Winning

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Work, Lost Friendship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Light

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 14, 2014

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

  Edmund Burke

  Nature, Health, Garden

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Prayer, Heart

  "New Seeds of Contemplation".

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• The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Ego, Finding Yourself

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• The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Wise, Want

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

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• We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Lying, Failure, Thinking

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• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Political, Generations, Politics

  Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”

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• In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wine, Journey

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• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

  Positive, Weed, Inspiration

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• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  Elena Kagan

  Truth, School, Learning

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

  Jeanne Gang

  Ideas, Design, Important

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

  Ibn Hazm

  Inspirational, Health, Knowledge

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

  Ibn Majah

  Islamic, Rewards, Doers

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

  Ted Dekker

  Faith, God, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Jun 22, 2012

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