Wisdom Quotes

"People with opinions just go around bothering each other." "If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone." "One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world." "True love is born from understanding." "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely." "A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again. But if he is peaceful, loving, and fearless, then he is in truth called wise." "Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation." "Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." "Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words." "Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." "Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast. A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." "Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." "She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair." "Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." "Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well-spoken words: this is good luck." "Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."