Samples Of Wise Quotes & Sayings

Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. — Dalai Lama XIV

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else? — Byron Katie

We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay. — Laura Ricketts

Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler. — Dave Mordal

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create. — Kevin Allen

Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books, of course. — Michelle Lovric

Evil is ... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world — Marquis De Sade

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit. — Gertrude Atherton