Quotes on Wise Words

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

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.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.