Category: Wisdom quotes

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul

I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me, pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn’t say “I’m proud to be 5’11”. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.” So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much

Namaste – I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One

Looking behind, I am filled with gratitude, looking forward, I am filled with vision, looking upwards I am filled with strength, looking within, I discover peace

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true