Quotes on Wise Words

Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.

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

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

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.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.