Wise Words Quotes - Page 5

• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Hard Times, Soul

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Broken Heart, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Betrayal

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• As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Wisdom

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Inspirational, Positive, Laughter

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• Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

  Benjamin Carson

  Truth, Honesty, Worry

  "Ben Carson Says Honesty Is More Important Than Political Experience" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 6, 2015.

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Men, Steps

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• Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Wise, Branches, Saws

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• A word to the wise is infuriating.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wise, Communication, Epic

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• Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

  A. A. Milne

  Mistake, Forests, Steps

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• A word to the wise is sufficient

  Plautus

  Wise, Sufficient

  Titus Maccius Plautus, James Tatum (1983). “Plautus, the darker comedies”

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• If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Trade, Ifs

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, People, Ifs

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Light, Useless

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• Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Wine, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

  Douglas Horton

  Peace, Fear, Revenge

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• A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

  Evan Esar

  Wise, Wisdom, Unnecessary

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• Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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