Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 11

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

"I came, I saw, SHE conquered."
(The original Latin seems to have been garbled).

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

I wear my wife''s eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one''s work is terribly important.

A woman''s greatest power is her vulnerability.

Don''t wear earmuffs in a land of rattlesnakes.

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait,
And die at last with unappeased desire,
Than live to be the jest of such a fate,
For that is my conception of hell-fire.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don''t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

No pain, no gain.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Trouble strikes in series of threes, but after a series of three, the next job is not the fourth job... it''s the start of a brand new series of three.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter bees.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

There isn''t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Every closed eye is not sleeping; and every open eye is not seeing.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it,
This life of luxury and social power;
You gave yourself as principal, and bought it,
But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

Learn to listen, opportunity often knocks softly.

You tend to become like the people and ideas you hang around with.