All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.”

“….it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.”

“What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free ofattachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.”

“Success equals goals; all else is commentary. ”

“Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.”

“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!”

“When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.”

“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”

“Are we being good ancestors?”

“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise”

“Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”

“Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave youfeelinghomelessor brimmingwith home.”

“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”