Wise Quotes - Page 38

• True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Gains

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• If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Mirrors

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• Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wisdom, Clever, Lying

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• Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.

  Rupert Spira

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

  Joe Sakic

  Summer, Motivation, Play

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• Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wisdom, Clever, Needs

  Rupert Brooke, James Strachey, Keith Hale (1998). “Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914”, p.283, Yale University Press

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• A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Dark, Men

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• Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Law, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

  Criss Jami

  Winning, Funny But True, Genius

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

  William Cartwright

  Fool

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• The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Able, Publicity, Chance

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• The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

  Tommy Lee

  Animal, Two, Different

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• I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Health Food, Junkie

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• Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

  David Morrissey

  Cities, Choices, Brave

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• Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Laughing, Fool, Cry

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• Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, Sometimes, Turns

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.179, Vintage

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• I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

  Jason Isbell

  Thinking, Careers, Challenges

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• If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Book, Agony, Stories

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nerd, Doe, Fool

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.

  Rachel Zoe

  Home, Night, Doors

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• The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'

  Orlando Gibbons

  Farewell, Eye, Swans

  1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

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• A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

  Julie Klam

  Dog, Bye, Giving

  Julie Klam (2010). “You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”, p.67, Penguin

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• Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

  Mariano Rivera

  Jobs, Smart, Rain

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• So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Kings, Memories

  John Masefield, Margaret Bridges, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.

  Sue Thoele

  Friendship, True Friend, Believe

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