Wise Village People Quotes

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus

Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

Wisdom Quotes