Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 16

• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Wisdom, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.31, New World Library

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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  If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

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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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• It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Wisdom, Freedom

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Feb 26, 2014

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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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• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• Through discipline comes freedom.

  Aristotle

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Freedom

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• Compassion is a verb.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sympathy, Wisdom, Compassion

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• It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Deep Thought, Business Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2017

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• The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

  Harlan Coben

  Wisdom, Hurt, Memories

  Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One/Gone for Good”, p.14, Delta

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• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• A jug fills drop by drop.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2014

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• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

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• If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Talking, Long

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• If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

  Ayn Rand

  Death, Truth, Killing

  "Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand". Book by Nathaniel Brandon, 1989.

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• There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Education

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.57, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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