All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.”

“Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.”

“Desire is the seed of potential.”

“Only be rebellious for good reasons.”

“Никога не съм позволявал на училището да попречи на образованието ми.”

“We are exactly where we have chosen to be.”

“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.”

“To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond?”

“The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.”

“Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.”

“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”

“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”