Wisdom

"Those who love wisdom must investigate many things" - Heraclitus

Courtesy of an unknown artist in Lawrence, Kansas

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change.

 Patience achieves everything.” – Mother Teresa 

“What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less 

because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa

"We can do no great things--only small things with great love." 

Mother Teresa  

 “He who has not reached his destination never gets tired.” – Kenyan proverb  

“Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” – Guinean proverb 

 
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “One never regrets going, only coming back.” – Kenyan proverb  

“People become what they want to become.” – Liberian proverb 

 “Some people dream of great accomplishments while others 

stay awake to do them.” – Liberian Proverb   

“Generosity has no regrets.” – Ugandan proverb 

"There is no death.  Only a change of worlds." -Chief Seattle

 “Silence is reflective, the word thoughtless.” – Malian proverb  

 “Love is shown by deeds, not words.” – Swahili proverb 

 “To lose the way is to learn the way.” – African proverb 

  “We are creatures of the Earth, and everything we learn about the Earth

 teaches us about ourselves” – David Suzuki

 "The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not the think of it." -Stanley Kubrick

 "After the first death, there is no other."-Dylan Thomas

 "Spirituality is the tuning of the heart; one can obtain it neither by study, 

nor by piety." -Sufi Wisdom

"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, 
and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. 
It is possible to believe that all 

that thehuman mind has ever accomplished is but the dream 
before the awakening. " 
H.G. 'Wells

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Chance favors only the prepared mind." -Louis Pasteur

 “Wisdom is like a baobab tree, a single person’ hand cannot embrace it.”

 – Ghanian proverb 
 

“Do not burn your house down just because a rat annoyed you.” – Nigerian proverb 

“It is easy to stand in a crowd; it takes courage to stand alone.” – Zambian proverb

“Everything is life.” – Malawian proverb

 "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."-Samuel Johnson

  "He who sleeps in continual noise is awakened by silence." -William Dean Howells 

 “Follow the river and find the sea.” – Zambian proverb

 “if you do not find the key that opens you, nothing will open you.” – North African proverb

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

 "It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you."

 – The Tremendous Mr. Joseph Campbell

 "It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light."G. K. Chesterton 

 "It is the moon not the finger pointing at the moon that calls us back to our selves."

 -Sam Keen

 "Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone." -Mary Angelou 

 "Every land has its nightingale, if we only have the heart to hear him."-Henry Van Dyke

 "Unchanging love and truth will carry us through all." -Charles Dickens 

“We see more with that which is behind our eyes than what is in front of us.” – Goethe 

 "Once learning solidifies, all is over with."-Alfred North Whitehead  

"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts."-Cochise

 "Listen!  Or your tongue will make you deaf."-Cherokee Saying 

 "The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do."-Sequichie Comingdeer

  "The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend" - Henri Bergson  

"Every human being has his own gate. We must never make the mistake of wanting to 

enter the orchard by any gate but our own.” – Night

 “It is not faith, but will, that is the mover of mountains.” – Gustave Le Bon 

 "Your way is decided.There is nothing you will not be told, if you acknowledge this."

 -Meditations from a course in Miracles

 "I not only bow to the inevitable; I amfortified by it."-Thornton Wilder

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships.To love and to be loved, is the greatest 
happiness of existence."-Sidney Smith

 "Lessons are not given, they are taken."

 “The one who asks for the path will not lose his way.” – Kenyan proverb  

“Let us be thankful for those who make us happy for they make our souls blossom.” 

– Ivorian proverb