The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it’s useless even to try

Today I have nothing to do except to enjoy the garden, drink the beauty of nature, and feel the joy of love and life.

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves… ☥

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don’t love him or like him any more.

Hayatımızdaki bazı insanların zamanı yoktur. Öyle parıltılı anlar yaşanmıştır ki, bağ, Yıldız tozlarından türeyen bir göbek kordonundan farksız olur. Zaman basitçe, Tanrı’ya bırakılan bir bahşişe dönüşür.

Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety…

Dibanding yang kau pikirkan, dunia itu selalu saling berhubungan. Manusia dengan manusia itu saling berhubungan. Pertalian antar manusia bukanlah sesuatu yang selemah seperti yang kau pikirkan. Karena itu, janganlah menyerah. Entah di mana akan selalu...

When you learn to enjoy every little event and you learn to see beauty in every little thing, you will reach the door of eternal happiness.

Our knowledge has limitations even though we have infinite imaginations.

Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over...

No matter how far or long you carry it, my love doesn’t weigh a lot. But if you aren’t carrying it with you, it will weigh heavy on your mind.

Love is a strong seed, planted in my soul of kindness to grow the plants compassion and flowers of happiness.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.

Love is the best invisible net to catch hearts.

But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week together, because Wally is not on morphine yet, because he has...

Let us think, let us loveJust for a day, just for a nightLet us find peace and happinessDeep in our heart with spiritual light.

Burn, burn, burn to become the light,to enlighten the whole world.

Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future.

Life doesn’t make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy’s job is to point out that it doesn’t make sense, and that it doesn’t make much difference anyway.

If you’re under stress, your life is complex. Simplify your life to reduce the stress.

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those...

The purpose of life should be to attain happiness by serving humanity with love and utmost sincerity.

Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Whenever you smile, whenever you care, whenever you love, whenever you share, your spirit will dance with joy because happiness is there.

You live your life proportional to your love for life.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

I like curiosity. It’s a mind game, not a necessity.

Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you’ve ever been given is yours forever.

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

You’re only limited by your thoughts. You’re limitless, boundless, endless and edgeless.

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

The purpose of life is not success, but happiness is.

You are the loving child of this universe, she is always eager to help you, your joy is her happiness.

Quoting geneticists, Guy Murcia says we’re all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is further removed than your fiftieth cousin. Murcia also describes...

When you give without expectation, you will always have more to give away.

It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave...

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status – but rarely for your wisdom.

The essence if hope is accepting uncertainty.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though...

Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

Happiness depends on our perceptions and thoughts.