Quotes about wise
wise giving silence
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us. Jon Kabat-Zinn
wise thinking attention
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
wise kindness heart
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
wise regret men
I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be. Jon Foreman
wise song sweet
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man. Jon Anderson
wise writing guarantees
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written. Jojo Moyes
wise block said
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. Johnny Vegas
wise silly stupidity
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. Ludwig Wittgenstein
wise dream character
How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other. Luanne Rice
wise hope promise
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises. Luc de Clapiers
wise office generosity
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
wise home water
If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you. Sheherazade Goldsmith
wise men years
You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek) Sherrilyn Kenyon
wise people house
You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)
wise peace men
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?" Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it. "A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
wise kings fun
You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can’t kill all your fun. (Chris)
wise wisdom men
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. Nicolas Chamfort
wise mean rude
What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude. Nora Roberts
wise men color
You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.
wise normal stomach
If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.
wise art winter
That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me." "Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking." "They're wise to fear me.
wise hands skills
You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
wise character men
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. Nikolai Gogol
wise prescriptions
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated. Nikola Tesla
wise rap hip-hop
My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. Nas
wise smart school
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
wise fool dangerous
Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
wise stupid political
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
wise nerd fool
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
wise government temptation
Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account. N. T. Wright
wise mother jesus
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.
wise real ocean
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly. Miranda July
wise silly book
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.