Words Of Wisdom Quotes

• A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

  Black Hawk

  Success, Heart, Native American

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• You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Discipline, Joy

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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

  Don Herold

  Education, Smart, Ignorance

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Differences, Together

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• Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Everyday Positive Thinking: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.422, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Suffering, Impermanence

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• All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 25, 2012

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• The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

  Dalai Lama

  Light, Years, Meditation

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• People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loneliness, Compassion

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• It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Teaching, Heart

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• We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

  Dalai Lama

  Selfish, Helping Others, Thinking

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• Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Thinking, Calm Mind

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• It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Important, May

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• Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

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• Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Inspirational, Wise

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• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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• The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Silence, Graffiti

  Song: The Sound Of Silence

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• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Animal, Opportunity

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• I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Happy Life, Thinking

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• United we stand, divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Family, Fall, Diversity

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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