Quotes on Words Of Wisdom

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

Everything is hard before it is easy.