1001 smartest things ever said

by Steven D Price

If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them :)

Blessed is the man who can laugh at himself

Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once

Unsuccessful search 4 a Buddha quote - on page 65

Here it is:

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones

The true test of character

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful

I love the man that can smile in trouble

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it ...

Dance as if no one is watching

Fear less, hope more ...

Whole section on proverbs

Google recommends this as a similar search

More wisdom from proverbs

If you haven't had enuf - you could search this site in the authors box

Even that is NOT the end :)

Have patience with your imperfections - also get a bunch of 'random' quotes

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one

A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire

Kind words do not cost much

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer

What it is 2 succeed

Quote about wisdom from Herman Hesse

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Quotes from Yes Minister - i really enjoyed this series!

Look up friend at this site too! - turns up MORE quotes than you can poke a stick at!

Here is a sample -

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you

What about adversity & friendship

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out

You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness

Thoreau has a bit 2 say on the subject

A true friend knows your weaknesses

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us

That's not QUITE all of them :)

Great quote about peace & the serenity of the soul

Here's one about developing idiosyncrasies :)

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself

Now back 2 the actual book -

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes

If there is anything we wish to change in the child

Mistakes are the portals for discovery

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains

Much more 2 follow ... hopefully ...

Some other quotes sites:

Pearls of Wisdom - one HUGE site - includes a Native American section

Some quotes about compassion

Wisdom from Kahlil Gibran - love the random features at this site!

Quote garden is another excellent site

Eckhart Tolle is one of my favourite authors

More Buddhist quotes - includes Brainy Quote which is huge!

Some thoughts about happiness

How 2 awaken true love

Another excellent quotes collection

Philosophical thoughts

Beliefnet is another huge site!

Quotes from Shakespeare

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you

Mother's Day quotes

Another old page of mine :)

Wisdom of our ancestors - looks a great site!

All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind

Watch out for unpleasant emotions - You don't need to become hostile just because the other person is, or just because their ideas are in conflict with yours

Quotes about the self

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love

Chinese proverbs

Huge collection of quotes! - plus some great humour pages

The Dalai Lama on the benefits of a tamed mind

Continuing the theme

How about a little more

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else

You should always speak and do things with mindfulness of loving-kindness

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us

Compassion compels us reach out to all living beings

Tips 4 living in the present moment

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders

Leads us 2 a familiar site!

Nice collection of quotes

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms

The mind should be a vastness like the sky. Mental events should be allowed to disperse like clouds.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

From an earlier site

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer

Funny quotes - and a few from the Dalai Lama & others. Plus some famous blunders :)

Speaking of which

A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness

Random quotes from a variety of collections

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder

Quotes from Wayne Dyer

Deep Thoughts

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world

The nature of happiness

Words of wisdom - worth waitin 4 it 2 load!

We do tend 2 reserve our kindest thoughts 4 those who agree with us & who are MOST like us :)

Quote from Pema Chodron:

If we feel distress, embarassment or anger we think we've really blown it. Yet feeling emotional upheaval is not a spiritual faux pas; it's the place where the warrior learns compassion. It's where we learn to stop struggling with ourselves. It's only when we can dwell in these places that scare us that equanimity becomes unshakeable.

Continuing the theme

Compassion is not a luxury

Leads us to interesting collection of quotes on happiness

Trans4mind has a good selection also

Brilliant quotes - includes 'It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me'

Those who have children can become masters of patience, endurance, and steadfastness, because children will test you at every turn. The way to make our children patient and loving is to be that way ourselves.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe

Huge page of quotes about life - check out their topics page - it's very comprehensive!

Also check out their Rainer Maria Rilke page

Inspirational quotes - many were new 2 me!

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, to be understood and touched by them

Leads us to this page

Quotes about God - includes a few proverbs

God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book

You cannot describe him using your human intelligence

The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature

Another of my favourite writers

I keep returning 2 this site - a section about thought

Quotes from TV shows - like MASH & Frasier & heaps of others ...

Every human has four endowments

When things go wrong ...

More quotes about courage

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us

Let go of your attachment to being right

Funny proverbs

This search tosses up a few worthy sites

Leads us 2 this collection sorted by topics

Rearrange quotes in an amusing way

You leave old habits behind by the light of peppermint cucumber sausage-paste butter

Comes from this effort

You never get the Goo-Goose is fun to wink and the light of sour gooseberry jam!

Quotes about the meaning of life

How 2 make this a better world

The way to happiness -- keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much

When I cannot find contentment in myself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere

Apple Seeds - quite an archive of thoughts - only clicked ona couple sofar

Thoughts about contenetment

If you cannot find happiness along the road, you will not find it at the end of the road

Leads us here

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher

Comedian Steven Wright's view on things :)

one of which leads us 2 this page of cartoons & quotes

May you have enough happiness

Thoughts about happiness

What kids have 2 say

Reminds me of this cute little book

What about compassion

Tagore quotes - quite a few!

Many quotes at this Buddhist forum

This thread is even bigger

Another thread about karma & favourite poems or songs

How could I forget the Chopra forum :)

Is it page65? - has heart & soul & ricketts & loads from goodstuff :)

Update June 2010 -

Note - even more in goodstuff - search 4 'quot' - think! as if ...

FOUND their index page to quotes - huge!

But! this is non-Buddhist quotes - could Google dozens of them!

Hmmm ... seems the quotes are naturally when the address has quote in it. So some of the following are distinct from that lot ... argh

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/Meditations/index.html

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/mind.html

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/depression.html

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/dharma-quotes-quotations-buddhist/mind-mindstream.htm

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/dharma-quotes-quotations-buddhist/meditation.htm

http://viewonbuddhism.org/anger.html

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/dharma-quotes-quotations-buddhist/mindfulness.htm

http://viewonbuddhism.org/resources/quotes.html

http://viewonbuddhism.org/dharma-quotes-quotations-buddhist/dharma-buddha-teachings.htm

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/meditation_practice.html

http://www.viewonbuddhism.org/immeasurables.html

http://viewonbuddhism.org/compassion.html

http://www.rexsy.com/cosmic_wisdom

http://www.sapphyr.net/largegems/index.htm

http://www.4lifeselfhelp.com/articles/Quotes_on_Meditation_and_Relaxation.html

http://www.taegozen.net/Inspirational_Quotes.html

http://www.poetseers.org/quotes/quotes_meditation/

http://www.wow4u.com/imagination/index.html

http://www.retls.com/Content/Quotes.htm

http://allspirit.co.uk/quotations.html

http://www.joyofquotes.com/kindness_quotes.html

http://www.deism.com/einstein.htm

http://www.shortquotes.net/index.htm

http://www.soulgroup.co.za/quotes.php

http://www.highonlife1.com/buddha_wisdom.htm

http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/lists/qutopl.htm

http://www.livinglifefully.com/contentment.htm

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Quotes About Mindfulness - heaps!

Posts in the �Inspirational Life Quotes� Category

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around

Fabulous screen saver

http://www.yourlifeyourway.net/2011/09/06/75-best-kickass-inspirational-quotes-on-life-love-happiness-change-growth/

http://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/quotes/20-quotes-for-a-mindful-day

http://www.wisdomcommons.org/virtues/87-mindfulness

�Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.�

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/listen-to-your-life-see-it-for-the-fathomless/1211006.html

How to Find Inner Peace: 5 Timeless Thoughts

Lennon quote

�When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down �happy�. They told me I didn�t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn�t understand life.�

More at the Chopra forum

Click here & scroll down 2 goodreads! on page 2 but worth readin the whole thread!

There is only one way to happiness

Spiritual quotes database and information on spirituality and the self - includes Neale

Update September 2012 -

Site with random quotes & a huge selection

Quotes about lettin go

Some of Deepak - over 100!

Great quotes about happiness

Appreciation Quotes

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers

Sent this 2 Mum - all major world religions have the same potential to create better human beings

Random quotes from a huge coollection

It is because we don't know who we are because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human

Leads us here after a couple of clicks - gives random quotes too!

Mindful quotes

Leads 2 this fabulous collection of blogs!

Here is one of the best definitions of mindfulness that I have found

Mindfulness & mental illness

Quotes about Being Happy

Bunch of quotes about love - one HUGE site!

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished

Most people are asleep - They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence

Quotes about making mistkes

Another huge list of quotes - including attitude

Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully

Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego

Quotes about livin-in-the-moment

The true secret of giving advice

Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are

Acceptance of one�s life has nothing to do with resignation

We must cherish doubt, the guardian of goodness and truth

More Osho quotes

Huge quotes site - sent 2 Mum

Only by fitting ourselves to meet conditions as they are, calmly and courageously, may we hope toOnly by fitting ourselves to meet conditions as they are, calmly and courageously, may we hope to reconcile ourselves to our position and conditions of life

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests

More quotes 4 difficult times

This bein the first 2 catch my attention

Quotes to Live By

Love these random quotes - select many collections

Leads us 2 search the Bible 4 love :)

Love Yourself Quotes

Quotes from Sri Ramakrishna - heaps!

Quotes about problems

Some from Thomas Merton

Kindness quotes - heaps at that site!

Quotes about normality

Cast a loving thought

Random quote

Thoughts about life

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path

Quotes from the alchemist

Loads at that site! - life lessons gratitude

Quotes about insanity :)

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it

As a man thinketh

Inspirational Words for Graduates

Words of Encouragement Quotes

Fabulous collection I compiled a while back!

Quotes about religion

Gratitude quotes

This bein the first 2 catch my attention

The more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you

Sent these 2 Mum

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others

Quotes about Life Lessons

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much

My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

Quotations on Madness

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven

Huge bunch of quotes about life

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it

All true love is from God, and man receives the divine affection as he himself bestows this love upon his fellows

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude

Quotes & images - loads at that site!

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are

Without cultivating a pliant mind our outlook becomes brittle and our relationship to the world becomes characterised by fear

Pain and Suffering Quotes

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them

Happiness is a journey, not a destination

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about

Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived

Great collection of quotes & poems

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved

Leads us 2 some about happiness - loads at that site!

Peace of mind

100 quotes from The Secret

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

Came from this random quote

Inspirational Quotes About Happiness - one superb site & book!

Words Of Wisdom

Quotable Quotes - some are inspirational, some are funny, and some are just plain bad

Humor is just another defense against the universe

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone

Souls are created in a positive matrix of such love and wisdom that when a soul starts to come to a planet like Earth and join the physical beings who have evolved from a primitive state, the violence is a shock

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

Random quotes

These are quotes tagged with "adversity"

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit

Inspirational Overcoming Adversity Quotes

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known

Loads at that site!

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Inspiring Quotes for Me and You

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker

INSPIRING SAYINGS OF SAINTS AND SAGES

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you

15 Quotes to Celebrate Life

Paulo Coelho�s Love Quotes

Huge page of Neale!

Leads 2 another page about mysticism

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love

Cool quotes collection

Happiness & well-being

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

Leads 2 this search - tosses up a few!

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view

Wisdom commons PLUS the advice on this page!

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top

Huge list of caegories

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him

The moment you blame anyone for anything, your relationship and your personal power deteriorate

Voltaire quotes

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

The more rules you have about how people have to behow life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you�re going to be!

Quotes 4 a better world

The highest form of wisdom is kindness

The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives

Huge bunch of quotes about compassion

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness

Pay no attention to the faults of others

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace

Sayings about experience

Came from interestin search

Quotes 4 Mum

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious

Osho quotes - glimpses of the highest truth

Leads us 2 a huge collection!

Also has a random quote section on left hand side!

Knowledge is fostered by curiosity; wisdom is fostered by awe

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

Words 2 live by

Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence

When you don�t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity became possessed by thought

Leads us 2 an interesting site

Only false religion has rules

When you observe your delusions, you will know that they are baseless and not dependable. In this way you can cut confusion and doubt. This is what I call wisdom.

Enlightened Masters Quotes on God

Bunch of quotes on friendship

It is easy to have compassion for a suffering being, but it is not easy to live with that person for the rest of your life

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight

Best wishes - sent 2 Mum

Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living - plenty at that blog

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

Living your life for others, cherishing them with loving kindness and compassion is the door to happiness

Quotes 4 Mum about reading

Inspiring Quotes on Having Patience - LOADS at that site!

Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them

Present Moment Quotes

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart

Could Google plenty of these!

I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others

Quotes on compassion

The fact that you are willing to say, �I do not understand, and it is fine,� is the greatest understanding you could exhibit

Loads at that site!

The secrets 2 happiness

Leads 2 this search

Encouragement about difficulties & overcoming them

Quotes for Bad Times

Unconditional self love quotes

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people�s models

We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.

One of the greatest lessons in life

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.

In a mad world only the mad are sane

All are lunatics but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

A bit of Neale

When you are offended at any man's fault

A few thoughts on compassion

Update January 2013 -

"Wisdom means that you realise that your peace-of-mind depends on the kinds of thoughts that you entertain. The thoughts which lead 2 peace-of-mind are compassion, forgiveness & gratitude."

~ Anon

Keys 2 genuine happiness

Comes from this huge coolection

The wise long for a state of tranquility

Words of wisdom

Loads at that site!

Quotes that Motivate and Inspire

Quotes to Lift You Up When You�re Feeling Down

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Life is a mystery; the more you know it, the more beautiful it is. A moment comes when suddenly you start living it, you start flowing with it. An orgasmic relationship evolves between you and life, but you cannot figure out what it is. That's the beauty of it, that's its infinite depth.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own

Quotes about courage - loads at that site

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins

All great changes are preceded by chaos

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Leads us here after a couple of clicks

Quotes in a HUGE range of topics!

More 4 Mum 2 ponder

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle

Befriending ourselves

Wise Quotes about Problems