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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
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.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.