Wise Thoughts Quotes & Sayings

Life is love.
Love is divine.
Divine is God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The word of God is full of assurance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but what fruit have they to show for this such as has the cross of Christ? Their wise thoughts were persuasive enough until they died; — Athanasius Of Alexandria

The Sovereign LORD is a mighty KING. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move. — John Patrick Hickey

Positive life, positive action. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is time.
You cannot replay time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a sacred breath. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When in need, then you shall know those who will care. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If the breath of life is taken, man turn to dust. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself, just as in the avenue de Foy our dissolute youths follow close on the heels of some strumpet, then leave her to pursue another, attacking all of them and attaching themselves to none. My thoughts are my strumpets. — Denis Diderot

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. — Idries Shah

The law of circulation is the power of communication. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every morning is a fresh breath and blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you wonder about eternal life? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your dreams will define your destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian. — Charles Spurgeon

Divinity encompasses all life forms. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What a wonderful life; to be blessed with many sacred brothers and sisters? — Lailah Gifty Akita

What would life be without challenges? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation. — John Locke

We even do not know what we have. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every new morning brings new strength, new hope and new vision. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We need God's great-grace in all spheres of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. — Margaret Wise Brown

The body may be weak, but the spirit within sustain the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Thoughts
thoughts. Are they not mine?
I think, I write, I type.
Thoughts. Are they wise?
Let truth be told in words, compiled together, create a page, a book.
Thoughts. Are they master piece?
Is it a prize winner? ... An Alfred Nobel?
Thoughts. Are they not mine?
Gift of God?
they are not mine. — Edna Stewart

God will fulfil His promise. Wait patiently for God to act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Creation is scientific. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I devote my sacred life to the service of humanity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. — Francis Bacon

Life is a sacred spark of divinity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit — Lailah Gifty Akita

Moses Luzzatto always said to be patient during the hard times, that they would have to endure and make sacrifices while they waited for better times to come. He urged Simone and the other Jewish boys not to provoke the Venetians, saying they should remain separate and focus on their work. He said their traditions were crucial to their identity, just as they were for their fathers before them. — Riccardo Bruni

This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Let your light shine brightly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No man goes out upon a novel expedition without misgivings.

The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Loc 245) — H.G.Wells

Dwell on the beautiful miracles of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Beyond the limit of suffering is strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness. — Gautama Buddha

I wonder if you know thy soul? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Men will always be boys. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no. — Gore Vidal

A living faith, a glorious hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived. — L. Frank Baum

You can start chasing your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. + 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their own craftiness"; a + 20and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."a + — Anonymous

Guard your hearts and thoughts; it is well spring of either life or death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity. — Alfred Armand Montapert

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Just a single cord is enough to be tangled — Munia Khan

The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure" (CJB, Ecclesiastes 7:4). — H.W. Charles

There is an eternal rest for every soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is a confident hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is a divine energy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern. — Abhijit Naskar

Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. — Blaise Pascal

It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacredness of Christmas: glory to God in the highest holy heavens, peace on earth and goodwill to all people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Archer has arrows to shoot; Sun has lights to shoot and Wise Man has thoughts to shoot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You never know what people have endured to get where they are. — Lailah Gifty Akita

That beauty may, for instance, be composed of lovely flowers, and glittering streams, and blue sky and white clouds; and yet the thing that impresses us most, and which we should be sorriest to lose, may be a thin grey film on the extreme horizon, not so large, in the space of the scene it occupies, as a piece of gossamer on a near-at-hand bush, nor in any wise prettier to the eye than the gossamer; but because the gossamer is known by us for a little bit of spider's work, and the other grey film is known to mean a mountain ten thousand feet high, inhabited by a race of noble mountaineers we are solemnly impressed by the aspect of it, and yet all the while the thoughts and knowledge which cause us to receive this impression are so obscure that we are not conscious of them. — Gaston Bachelard

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a beautiful dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no riches but richer thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. — Ivan Panin

Life can end any time, any day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness." "Are — Hermann Hesse

The words you use can influence your life. Positive words are well spring of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt only the wise man, only he whose thoughts — James Allen

Thought precedes actions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dwell on positive thoughts! — Lailah Gifty Akita

For what is known of God is evident among them: for God revealed Himself to them. 20. For the unseen things, both His eternal power and divine authority, from His creation of the world, are seen clearly, being understood by His works. so they are without excuse. 21. Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but their thoughts became directed to worthless things and their foolish hearts and minds became covered in darkness. 22. Although they claim to be wise they were made foolish — Anonymous

Love begets faith.
Faith begets courage.
Courage begets strength.
Strength begets positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Encouraging words are life-giving fountain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is within is untouchable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity. — Sanober Khan

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about. — Earl Nightingale

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Madness is blackness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The light shines brightly in the darkness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were. — Confucius

If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. — Isaac Mayer Wise

Never be afraid to your share your story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A person who is a good and true Christian should realize that truth belongs to his Lord, wherever it is found, gathering and acknowledging it even in pagan literature, but rejecting superstitious vanities and deploring and avoiding those who 'though they knew God did not glorify him as God or give thanks but became enfeebled in their own thoughts and plunged their senseless minds into darkness. Claiming to be wise they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the image of corruptible mortals and animals and reptiles' [Rom. 1:21-3] — Augustine Of Hippo

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we learn and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. — H.P. Lovecraft

You have to want it enough to buy it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You will find a job, if you are willing to work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All glory to the Adonai! — Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful. — Henry David Thoreau