Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Scars are wisdom in disguise.
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.
Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.
Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector. . . Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice. . . Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
