Wisdom Quotes

Your mind is your master. Learn to be its master and not its slave.
-- Remez Sasson
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business. 
-- Eric Hoffer
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 
--Albert Einstein
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right. 
--Aung San Suu Kyi
If I advocate for cautious optimism, it is not because I do not have faith, but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. 
--Aung San Suu Kyi
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. 
--Aung San Suu Kyi
If you are feeling helpless, help someone. 
--Aung San Suu Kyi
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. 
--Mark Twain
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-- Unknown
When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
--The Tao Te Ching
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.
--Joseph Campbell
Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
-- Eckhart Tolle
Expecting the world to treat you fairly is like expecting a bull not to hit you because you're vegetarian 
-- Unknown
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
-- Nietzsche
The things you own end-up owning you. It's only after you lose everything you're free to do anything...
-- Chuck Palahniuk
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
 --Turkish Proverb
What we resist persists!
-- Unknown
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hardwork. It means to be calm in your heart even in midst of those things.
-- Unknown
There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire, the other is to get it.
-- Bernard Shaw
I’m indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. 
– Khalil Gibran 
If you have a reason, you do not need to shout. 
-- Zen Proverb
…if you hear the truth and do not live it, your life become a hideous confusion, the sorrowful mess which it is…
-- Unknown
The happiness is happiness to you only till you reach there! 
-- Unknown
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone... 
-- Henrik Ibsen
When neither hatred nor love disturb our minds, serenely we sleep...
-- Unknown
Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right. 
-- Daiasku Ikeda
All appointments are ending up in disappointment; therefore have an appointment with disappointment so you will never be disappointed...
-- Unknown
Nothing lasts forever, and if you believe it does, you'll only put yourself in a world of misery...
-- Unknown
Life is like a honey-gathering bee: after collecting all the honey from myriad flowers, they age and their labour leaves them with nothing.
-- Unknown
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls 
– Rumi
Why do I not rather seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display? These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything...
-- Dostoyevsky