Wise Words Quotes - Page 15

• Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Inspirational, Time, Children

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Summer

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• The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

  Livy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

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• Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Spiritual

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• History is written by the victors.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Humorous, Winning

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

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• If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Life, Motivational, Live For Today

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• We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

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• These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

  Jim Rohn

  Wise, Entrepreneur, Words Of Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2017

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Greek

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• Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Priorities

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 19, 2016

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• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Beauty, People

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• All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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• In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

  Brennan Manning

  Life, Giving, Words Of Wisdom

  Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.101, Tyndale House

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• When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, People

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2313, Penguin

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• Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jun 06, 2011

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• The first peace, which is the most important,
  is that which comes within the souls of people
  when they realize their relationship,
  their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
  and when they realize that at the center of the universe
  dwells the Great Spirit,
  and that this center is really everywhere,
  it is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wisdom

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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