There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 67
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.
Ken Burns
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
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We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness are at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner
Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?
Dennis Prager
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
Brandon Sanderson
Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.
Ban Ki-moon
A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
Colleen Houck
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.
Stephen Batchelor
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.
Jeet Thayil
Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.
Chris Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.
Ernest Sosa
