Quotes about wisdom
wisdom prayer meditation
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer. Dalai Lama
wisdom peace buddhist
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Jack Kornfield
wisdom reality loving-yourself
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
wisdom art powerful
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings. Jack Kerouac
wisdom mind details
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
wisdom men road-life
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
wisdom mean worry
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.
wisdom mad being-mad
There are worse things than being mad.
wisdom weather firsts
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
wisdom fighting men
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.
wisdom home tired
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
wisdom hands wheels
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
wisdom sleep thinking
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.
wisdom dust house
Houses are full of things that gather dust
wisdom silly world
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
wisdom sweet hate
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
wisdom men differences
What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
wisdom caring differences
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
wisdom hate world
It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.
wisdom empathy faults
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
wisdom men aunt
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
wisdom positivity scripture
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
wisdom long pages
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
wisdom stores
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
wisdom children littles
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
wisdom book writing
I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
wisdom stars spring
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.
wisdom sleep interesting
I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
wisdom ends
The beauty of things must be that they end.
wisdom too-much ifs
If you own a rug you own too much.
wisdom blue sky
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
wisdom forgiving sin
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
wisdom sleep bed
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.