#wisdom

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#light #love #path #power #purity

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays...most people survive; that is all. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#god #hate #inspirational #judging-others #life

You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #change

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #hunted #hunting #literature #literature-quotes

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eyesight #invisible #literature #literature-quotes

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#wisdom #writing #existentialism

'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #wisdom-quote #r-alan-woods

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control. ↗

— Laura Munson

#happiness #therapist #wisdom #wisdom-quote

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14 ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare-s-wisdom #love

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#destination #destiny #journeys #love #love-story