Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 13

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Dust if you must, but the world''s out there
with the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
a flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
this day will not come round again.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women''s husbands.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It''s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Dust if you must, but wouldn''t it be better
to paint a picture, or write a letter,
bake a cake, or plant a seed.
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there is not much time,
with rivers to swim and mountains to climb!
Music to hear, and books to read,
friends to cherish and life to lead.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

If you always do what you always did, you''ll always get what you always got.

Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true; ...

A sweater is usually put on a child when the parent feels chilly.

Only after the last tree has been cut down;
Only after the last fish has been caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned;
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves; they will never cease to be amused.

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
old age will come and it''s not kind.
And when you go, and go you must,
you, yourself, will make more dust!

He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he doesn''t have.

Novi ingenium mulierum;
Nolunt ubi velis, ubi nolis cupiunt ultro.
[I know the nature of women. When you will, they will not; when you will not, they come of their own accord.

Ask me not that doleful query
Why apart from joy I tarry,
Why life''s path, so dull and dreary,
Lone I plod and do not marry.

A day without sunshine is, you know, night.