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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.
Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
To advise is not to compel.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.
A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.
Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.
Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.
Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!
I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
It's OK to be down in the dumps - just don't stay there too long.
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave ..." It seems to me that the same is true of the much older [geological stratigraphical] history of Europe.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
The world is as you are.
The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
