Quotes on Words Of Wisdom

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

The most important things are the hardest to say

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Through discipline comes freedom.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

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

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

A friend to all is a friend to none.