Wise sayings and quotes from modern sages. Phrases and quotes about wisdom

Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but a task that we must do and honestly complete it.

I saw the meaning of my life in helping others see meaning in their lives.

If a person begins to be interested in the meaning of life or its value, this means that he is sick.

You must be able to close a boring book, leave a bad movie, part with people who do not value you.

A friend to everyone is a friend to no one.

For me, living means working.

Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.

A person should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather should realize that he himself is the one to whom the question is addressed.

The more you think about the meaning of life, the less meaning remains in what you think.

As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny.

Nobody becomes a good man accidentally.

To reach your goal, you must first go.

Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living.

I may not know the meaning of life, but the search for meaning already gives meaning to life.

Only those who have lost everything worth living for are free.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

It is common for every person to make mistakes, but it is common for no one except a fool to persist in a mistake.

Finding your way, finding out your place - this is everything for a person, this means for him to become himself.

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.

Let our highest goal be one thing: to speak as we feel, and to live as we speak.

Without the element of the unknown, the game of life loses its meaning.

If suddenly life throws you another lemon, brew strong tea and enjoy it.

It's better to be simple and honest than smart and deceitful.

In life, you should strive not to overtake others, but yourself.

Our life is a journey, an idea is a guide. There is no guide and everything stops. The goal is lost, and the strength is gone.

We don't know what to do with ours short life, but we still want to live forever.

The whole meaning of life lies in the endless conquest of the unknown, in the eternal effort to know more.

If you do not desire much, then a little will seem like a lot to you.

He who hobbles along a straight road will outpace a runner who has lost his way.

A person can have two basic behaviors in life: he either rolls or climbs.

The meaning of life is like climbing a rope that we ourselves threw into the air.

In life it is easier to get to the point than to the point.

Truly wise sayings about life and love, spoken by well-known representatives of humanity, as well as by unknown authors on completely different topics:

I cry without tears and without sounds - this is such a special breathing system when you just suffocate. Quiet and without drama.
The struggle for existence is the most effective distraction from the flow of life.
What is history? Variability is its essence.
IN modern world you have to be a terrible cynic to be an optimist.

We would like to live better and better, but we are forced to live more fun...
All the best memories in my life begin with the words: - We shouldn’t do this... - The soul wouldn’t have a rainbow if the eyes didn’t have tears. Thought is material, and the most incredible desires can be fulfilled. Remember: you attract to yourself what you believe in. When you feel like a goal is unattainable, don’t change the goal—change your action plan.
Those who wait patiently do get something eventually, but it's usually WHAT'S left over from the people who didn't wait.
You can take a girl out of the village, but you can’t take the village out of the girl.
Advice is like castor oil: easy to give, unpleasant to take.
Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact.
A dog needs a dog's life, but a person needs a human life. The main thing: do not confuse...
If a man needs only one thing from a woman, then she is only capable of one thing.
Now there is no need to torture people with hot irons, because there is great amount noble metals.
If you want to become happy, learn to suffer first. I. S. Turgenev
Records are there to be broken.
Life is like a box chocolates you never know what's inside.
Forgiveness is not difficult. It’s harder to forget what you forgive for.
Life is what happens to us while we are making plans for the future. Allen Saunders
He did not drink, did not smoke, rode a bicycle, lived frugally, saved every penny and died at a flourishing age, surrounded by greedy relatives. This was a big lesson for me. John Barrymore
Life can be delicious if you know how to cook it A. Maksimov
You don't need to waste time, but invest in it.
Remember, you can always find something to do. Well, life is a thing that has an ending.
You can’t stop living a fun life, but you can make it so that you don’t want to laugh.
And most importantly, don’t stop dreaming before going to bed!
Don't tell God you have a problem, turn to the problem and say you have God.
Each of us crosses the bridges of life, burning them behind us and carrying with us the smell of smoke and the bitterness of tears.
I need such closeness that it penetrates under the skin - straight into the brain, like going into the astral plane.
When you do anything, it's best to rely only on yourself. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I love! Let it be stupid and funny. Let there be no hope. Love you! Now I don't care. Now you are even more precious to me...
The beauty of a woman is an attraction. The main thing is in her heart.
There must be two loves. Then they will intertwine and it will not be clear where the beginning is and where the end is.
Beauty is power, as is money, and so is a loaded gun...

Love is all. And that's all we know about her. Emily Dickinson
When you start opening people’s eyes, they close their ears.
Shut up! And you don’t have to scream, never, beg anyone for anything... Just straighten your shoulders and go into silence... The one who loves you will not leave you alone.
The history of humanity is the history of a fairly small number of people who believed in themselves.
It is impossible to “drink little,” “smoke rarely,” “cheat on your wife within reason.” There is no “golden mean” when determining the degree of depravity.
You know, dear, for a man to understand a woman is very rare. And while a woman finds the one, she will try a bunch of other rotten, and maybe not so rotten, men.
Well, everyone already has modems, but there is still no happiness...
Life is a chain of successive stages of creating a picture, and not a desire for the moment of its completion.
A person's character can be judged by how he behaves with those who cannot be of any use to him, as well as with those who cannot fight back.

a wise man does not do to others what he does not want done to him. - Confucius *

“In everything therefore, whatever you want people to do to you, do so to them...” - Gospel of Matthew: (Matthew 7:12). Golden Rule of Morality.

The ability to see the miraculous in the ordinary is an invariable sign wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to know a person, don't listen to what others say about him, better listen to what he says about others
- Woody Allen

I derive the laws of mechanics from the laws of God.
- Isaac Newton

There is nothing complicated in life. We are the ones who are complex. Life is a simple thing, and the simpler it is, the more correct it is.
- Oscar Wilde

Be among those whose presence helps you develop perfect qualities. Leave those who make your shortcomings worse. Don't examine other people's weaknesses, but focus on your own. Don't get attached to anything, because attachment is the source of unfreedom. Until you calm your mind, you cannot experience happiness.
- Padmasambhava

How a well-spent day gives restful sleep, so a usefully lived life gives a peaceful death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

- Baba Virsa Singh

There are no keys to happiness! The door is always open.
- Mother Teresa

One, looking into a puddle, sees dirt in it, and the other sees stars reflected in it.
- Immanuel Kant For God there are no dead.
- Akhmatova A.

I believe in God, who reveals himself in the natural harmony of all things, and not in the Lord, who deals with the fate and actions of specific people.
- Albert Einstein

Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space.
- Albert Einstein

You can close your eyes to what you see. But you can’t close your heart to what you feel.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people with souls as deep as the ocean, in whom you want to plunge... And there are people like puddles that you have to go around so as not to get dirty

The wiser a person becomes, the less reason he finds to be offended.
- Richard Bach

Strength comes from defeats, not victories.
- Coco Chanel

Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience.
- Coco Chanel

Age is just a number. It does not determine a person's mind and his outlook on life. Everything depends not on the years lived, but on the circumstances experienced in life.
- Sylvester Stallone

“Who are you? You are the one who asked to come to Earth in order to do something wonderful here, something very important for you, something that cannot be done anywhere else and never...”
- Richard Bach

Only he truly lives who sees both himself and God in every neighbor.
- Lev Tolstoy

Know that while you are being praised, you are not yet on your own path, but on a path pleasing to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If every person began his day watching the world fill with life, light and beauty, then villainy would disappear - there would simply be no place for them in the sun-washed soul...

You will get out of any difficult situation right away if you just remember that you live not with your body, but with your soul, and remember that you have something in you that is stronger than anything in the world.
- Lev Tolstoy

“Wisdom is not a product of learning, but a lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
- Albert Einstein

The point is not to make money and use what you have acquired, but to make money for yourself and die, full of your own essence
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are a guest. Leave this Earth a little more beautiful, a little more humane, a little more loving, a little more fragrant for those unknown guests who will come after you...
- Osho

- Chinese proverb

A soul that lacks wisdom is dead. But if you enrich it with teaching, it will come to life, like an abandoned land on which rain has fallen.
- Abu-l-Faraj

The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses...
- Osho

We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

One of the most useful life skills is the ability to quickly forget everything bad: don’t dwell on troubles, don’t live with grievances, don’t revel in irritation, don’t harbor a grudge. You shouldn’t drag all sorts of rubbish into your soul.
- Buddha

Happy is not the one who has everything best, but the one who gets the best out of what he has.
- Confucius

Health, youth, and harmony live in each of us. You just need to be able to find them and awaken them.
- Vladimir Lermontov

If you hate, it means you have been defeated.
- Confucius

A gentle person does what is asked.
A callous person does not do what is asked.
A stupid person does what is not asked.
A smart person does not do what is not asked.
And only a Wise man does what is necessary.

What we see is only one appearance,
Far from the surface of the sea to the bottom.
They considered the obvious in the world to be unimportant,
For the secret essence of things is not visible.
- Omar Khayyam

You should do what makes you happy. Forget about money or other traps that are considered success. If you're happy working in a village store, work. You only have one life.
- Karl Lagerfeld

Our world is immersed in a huge ocean of energy, we fly in endless space at an incomprehensible speed. Everything around rotates, moves - everything is energy.
- Nikola Tesla

- Albert Einstein

Usually it takes a lot for a long time to understand incredibly simple things.
- Joe Chang

Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, but more wisely.
- Henry Ford

If the problem can be resolved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it.
- Dalai Lama

A man who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new. Most people don't try anything new because they are afraid of making mistakes. But there is no need to be afraid of this. Often a person who fails learns more about how to win than someone who succeeds immediately.
- Albert Einstein

What we called matter is actually energy, the frequency of vibrations of which has been reduced to the point of being perceived by the senses.
- Albert Einstein

Without wisdom there is no justice.

We anger God with our sins, and people with our virtues.

A good person is often mistaken for a fool.

Beauty is seen, wisdom is heard, goodness is felt.

In those moments when you are choked by despair, when you feel like you can’t do anything and that it’s impossible to do anything, know: only in such moments do you truly move forward.
- Francis Scott

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its width and depth.
- Archimedes

In the Tibetan tradition, it is advised to look at life through the eyes of a traveler who has stayed in a hotel for a couple of days: he likes the room, likes the hotel, but does not become overly attached to them, because he knows that all this does not belong to him, and he will soon leave...
- Sangye Khadro

The Lord can neither make mistakes nor lie. You are going through a life lesson and yet, without drawing the right conclusions for yourself, you are stuck on the same thing.
- Archimandrite John Krestyankin

I believe that truly true religion is a good heart.
- Dalai Lama

An inexplicable thing is the soul. Nobody knows where he is, but everyone knows how much it hurts.
- A.P. Chekhov

Everyone has something special, you just need to open your eyes.
- Lama Ole Nydahl

Today is just one of many, many days that are yet to come. But maybe all those future days depend on what you do today.
- Ernest Hemingway

I want you to stop looking for something outside of yourself and listen to what is inside you. People are afraid of what's inside, and that's the only place where they can find what they need.
- Peaceful Warrior

You cannot lose hope, because a person cannot be broken so that he cannot be restored.
- John Green. "Looking for Alaska"

You have sails, but you are clinging to the anchor...
- Confucius

He who sees too far is not at peace in his heart. Do not be sad about anything in advance and do not rejoice at what does not yet exist.
- Eastern wisdom

It doesn't matter how many days are in your life, what matters is how much life is in your days...

Be your own light. Don't worry about what others say, don't worry about traditions, religions, morals. Just be your own light!
- Shakyamuni Buddha

Mind, with it correct use, is a perfect and unsurpassed tool. When used incorrectly, it becomes extremely destructive. To be more precise, it's not that you might be using it incorrectly - usually you don't use it at all. He's taking advantage of you. This is what the disease is. You believe that you are your mind. And this is a misconception. The instrument has taken over you.
- Eckhart Tolle "The Power of Now"

"There is nothing softer and more flexible than water, but try to resist it."
- Lao Tzu

Each of us is responsible for all of humanity. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart - this is our temple; our philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama XIV

The greatness of the world is always in accordance with the greatness of the spirit looking at it.
- Heinrich Heine

Church, Temple or Kaaba Stone, Koran or Bible, Or Martyr's Bone - all this and Furthermore my heart can accept and accommodate, Since my religion is Love.
- Abdu-l-Lah

There is no end to the mystery whose name is man, just like the mystery whose name is the world.
- Carlos Castaneda

Man is a creature that can admire the beauty of nature and at the same time destroy it.
- Darius, philosopher

The proverbial missing link between the ape and the civilized man is us.
- Konrad Lorenz

The older a person becomes, the more important the content is to him than the shell.
- Harun Agatsarsky

The life of people devoted only to pleasure without reason and without morality has no value.
- Immanuel Kant

If you managed to deceive a person, this does not mean that he is a fool. It just means that you were trusted more than you deserve.

When it seems to a person that everything is going wrong, something wonderful tries to enter his life.
- Dalai Lama

Good does not put on the mask of evil, but often evil, under the mask of good, does its crazy things.
- Omar Khayyam

I know the world: in it a thief sits on a thief;
A wise man always loses an argument
With a fool; the dishonest shames the honest;
And a drop of happiness drowns in a sea of grief.
- Omar Khayyam

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But the worst kind of suffering is not knowing what decision to make.
- Paulo Coelho

Whatever you do behind people’s backs, you do it in front of God!

A person lives a real life if he is happy with the happiness of others.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Most good teacher in life - experience. True, he charges a lot, but he explains clearly.”

He is not great who has never fallen, but he is great who has fallen and gotten up!
- Confucius

He who can fill every moment with deep content endlessly prolongs his life.
- Isolde Kurtz

Man forgot his true purpose, his true divine origin and fell into serious trouble. From here we have ecological problems, hence the military conflicts, hence the endless, constantly increasing number of contradictions, disagreements, disputes, quarrels.

Don't waste time on a person who doesn't want to spend it with you.

One of the most common misconceptions is to consider people good, evil, stupid, smart. Man flows, and he has all the possibilities: he was stupid, he became smart, he was angry, he became kind and vice versa. This is the greatness of man. And you can’t judge a person based on this. You condemned, but he is already different.
- Lev Tolstoy

Those who want are looking for opportunities, and those who don’t want are looking for excuses.

If there is a desire, there are a thousand ways; if there is no desire, there are a thousand reasons.

Even with keen eyes, we see only what we already know. We perceive other people not as they are, but as we want them to be. We obscure the real person with a painted picture.
- Jana-Philipp Zendker

Life is a moment. It cannot be lived first in a draft and then rewritten into a white paper.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The task of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to live in accordance with the internal law that you recognize.
- Marcus Aurelius

The blessing is not in having a long life, but in how to manage it: it can happen, and it often happens, that someone who lives a long time lives short.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but a task that we must do and honestly complete it.
- Alexis Tocqueville

When you throw dirt at a person, remember that it may not reach him, but will remain on your hands!
- Author unknown

“And it’s time for people to get tired of right and wrong enmity, it’s time to see that glory is confused, not knowing on whom to lay a wreath. ... the mind is damaged by the twentieth century, the most terrible century in history.”

We think that God sees us from above - but he sees us from the inside.
- Gilbert Sesbron

Where everyone is hunchbacked, slimness becomes ugliness.
- O. Balzac

Here is my secret, it is very simple: only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

People are the only creatures on Earth who need God's help, but they behave as if there is no God...
- Johnny Depp

If man in his perfection is the noblest creature, then divorced from law and morality, he is the worst of all.
- Aristotle

For me, every hour of the day and night is an indescribable miracle of life.
- Walt Whitman

Our world, even after all the discoveries that scientists have made, for everyone who seriously thinks about its structure, still remains a miracle, a mystery and a mystery.
- Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing insignificant in this world for such a small creature as a person. Only by understanding the tiny world around us can we acquire great art - the ability to obtain the greatest possible happiness in this life.
- Samuel Johnson

Here's my secret. Everything is completely simple: you can see well only with your heart. The main thing is hidden from human eyes.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anyone who wants to be healthy already partially recovers.
- Giovanni Boccaccio

The art of medicine is to help the patient pass the time while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire

Not the opinions of people, but the arguments of reason - this is the universal formula for the search for truth.
- Pierre Abelard

He who attaches importance to empty deeds is important matters will turn out to be an empty person.
- Cato the Elder

People become close gradually, strangers instantly.

A thinking atheist who lives according to his conscience does not himself understand how close he is to God. Because he does good without expecting reward. Unlike believers, hypocrites.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Believe in yourself! Believe in your abilities! You cannot succeed and be happy without firm and well-founded confidence in own strength and possibilities.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The ability to see the miraculous in the ordinary is an invariable sign of wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as you realize that you do not need anything in the world, the world will become yours.
- Lao Tzu

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
- L. Tolstoy

The last war among men will be a war for truth. This war will be in every single person. War – with one’s own ignorance, aggression, irritation. And only a radical transformation of each individual person can be the beginning peaceful life all people.
- Nicholas Roerich

A dog recognizes its owner in any clothing. The owner may be in a robe, a suit and tie, or not dressed at all, but the dog always recognizes him. If we are unable to recognize God, our beloved master, when He is clothed in other clothes - clothes from another religion - then we are worse than a dog.
- H.H. Radhanatha Swami

I prefer to do what I love in my life. And not what is fashionable, prestigious or expected.
- Moscow does not believe in tears

If you want to succeed, avoid 6 vices: drowsiness, laziness, fear, anger, idleness and indecisiveness.
- Jackie Chan

Beware of those who want to make you feel guilty, for they crave power over you.
- Confucius

An arrow sent by you at another will fly around the globe and pierce you in the back.
- Eastern wisdom

The truly closest person is the one who knows your past, believes in your future, and now accepts you for who you are.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We will be destroyed by politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, business without morals, science without humanity and prayer without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi

- Eastern wisdom

Man is designed in such a way that when something ignites his Soul, everything becomes possible.
- J. Lafontaine

We make an effort to wake up and actually wake up when the dream becomes terrible and we no longer have the strength to bear it. The same must be done in life when it becomes unbearable. At such moments, one must, through the effort of consciousness, awaken to a new, higher, spiritual life.
- Lev Tolstoy

Being offended and indignant is like drinking poison in the hope that it will kill your enemies.
- Nelson Mandela

Life sometimes beats, but these blows are medicine. “Punishment” comes from the word “order”. And a mandate is a lesson, a teaching. The Lord teaches us like a caring father. He puts his little son in a corner so that he won’t do anything bad next time.
- Peter Mamonov

Disease always occurs either from excess or from deficiency, that is, from imbalance.
- Hippocrates

Let every mistake teach you a great lesson: every sunset is the beginning of a very, very bright and big dawn...
- Sri Chinmoy

By intelligence I mean, mainly, the rarest innate ability - not to burden others with oneself.
- Dina Rubina

My third rule was to always strive to conquer myself rather than fate, to change my desires rather than the order of the world...
- Rene Descartes

To become happy, you need to get rid of everything unnecessary. From unnecessary things, unnecessary fuss, and most importantly, from unnecessary thoughts.
- Daniel Shellabarger

“Never try to prove that you are right, because then you will be wrong.”
-Elder Joseph the Hesychast

He who has contemplated the greatness of nature himself strives for perfection and harmony. Our inner world should be like this example. In a clean atmosphere everything is clean.
- Honore de Balzac. Lily of the Valley

Just as warm clothes protect against cold, endurance protects against resentment. Increase patience and peace of mind, and resentment, no matter how bitter it may be, will not touch you!
- Leonardo Da Vinci

The wider you open your arms, the easier it is to crucify you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Rishis proclaim that we are not our body, mind or emotions. We are divine souls on a delightful journey. We come from God, live in God and develop into unity with God. We are the Truth we are looking for.
- Sanatana Dharma Upanishad

When I looked around, I felt like a grain of sand in the sea... but when I closed my eyes and looked inside, I saw the whole Universe...
- Inayat Khan Hidayat

There is nothing complicated in life. We are the ones who are complex. Life is a simple thing, and the simpler it is, the more correct it is.
- Oscar Wilde

Your brain is like a garden that can be tended to or nurtured. You are a gardener and can grow your garden or leave it neglected. But know: you will have to reap the fruits of either your labor or your own inaction.
- John Kehoe. "The subconscious can do anything"

Whatever you do, you do yourself.
- Eastern wisdom

The longer I live, the more inclined I am to the idea that solar system The earth plays the role of a madhouse.
- Bernard Show

Asceticism is not about not owning anything. Asceticism is about not letting anything control you.
- Abu Yazid Bistami

If someday, while chasing happiness, you find it, you, like the old woman looking for her glasses, will discover that it was on your nose all along.
- Bernard Show

If they ask me: “What is your religion?”, I will answer: “The one that is among the trees, the mountains, the animals; the religion of all creation is my religion. Because her light is in every creature on earth, and this light fills me too. Because there is one Father, and we are all His children, wherever we are.”
- Baba Virsa Singh

Power over yourself is the highest power.
- Seneca

If there is no peace within us, it is useless to look for it outside.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many people wait all week for Friday, the whole month of the holiday, the whole year of summer, and all their lives for happiness. But you need to rejoice in every day and enjoy every moment.
- Osho

Everything has its sunset... and only the night ends with dawn.
- Eastern wisdom

All paths are the same: they lead to nowhere. But some have hearts, while others don't. One path gives you Strength, the other destroys you.
- Carlos Castaneda

Society is a yoke of scales that cannot lift some without lowering others.
- Jacques Vanier

Don't accept any negativity. Until you accept it, it belongs to the one who brought it.
- Buddha

A person with the highest Fortitude corrects the internal in order to control the external.
A person with lower Fortitude corrects the external in order to calm the internal.
- Lao Tzu

Avoid at all costs ascribing victim status to yourself. No matter how disgusting your situation may be, try not to blame external forces for it: history, state, bosses, race, parents, moon phase, childhood, untimely potty training, etc. The moment you place blame on something, you undermine your own resolve to change anything.
- Joseph Brodsky

Comfort is not furniture, not a house, not a place. Comfort is when your soul is calm.

Many believe that the trials of this life are certainly retribution for past sins. But is metal heated in a forge because he has sinned and must be punished? Isn't this being done to improve the properties of the material?...
- Lobsang Rampa

Democracy is balloon, which hangs above your heads and makes you stare up while other people go through your pockets.
- Bernard Show

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I each have one apple left. And if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- Bernard Show

You are responsible for what you can change. But you can only change your attitude. This is where your responsibility lies!
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This incarnation is God walking on his own earth. The human incarnation is God Himself residing in human form. Don't underestimate yourself, this form is a divine form. Therefore you must act with the fullness of divinity in you.
- Papaji

He who finds himself loses dependence on other people's opinions.
- Albert Einstein

The only lesson that can be learned from history is that people do not learn any lessons from history.
- Bernard Show

The beauty of this world is that you can see it in different ways. It is so limitless that it can be reflected in the human mind exactly as the person himself is. That is, the more beautiful a person’s inner world is, the more beautiful the world around him seems.
- Excerpt from the book "The World of Dreams: Notes of a Wanderer"

Most people are like wood shavings, coiled around their own emptiness.
- Saint Theophan the Recluse

See the truth within yourself. And everything around you will begin to change to the extent that you see the truth within yourself.
- Robert Adams

Do your own thing, and don’t consider it important how others look at you. For only God's judgment is true. People don’t know themselves well, much less others...
- Saint Theophan the Recluse

If a person does not put it in his heart that there is no one else in the world except himself and God, then he will not be able to find peace in his soul.
- Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov.

The soul cannot have peace unless it prays for its enemies. God is the unapproachable Light. His Being is above any image, not only material, but also mental.
- Venerable Elder Silouan of Athos (Semyon Ivanovich Antonov; 1866, Tambov province - 1938, Athos)

Forget your relationship with the body, forget it. Forget that you are the body, but do not forget that what will leave the body is you.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Do not listen to any religions of the world and come to God, let go of all religions that create obstacles on the path to Him.

The power that created you also created the world. If She takes care of you, then She can similarly take care of the world... If God created the world, then it is His concern to look after it, not yours.
- Ramana Maharshi

Pleasure and pain are fleeting. It is simpler and easier not to notice them than to act on their instructions.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you see someone else's sin, correct your own.
-Chinese proverb

Everyone should visit countries where the joy of life is dissolved in the air
- Vyacheslav Polunin

Don't go with the flow, don't swim against the flow. Sail where you need to go.
- Sun Tzu

The world is like a dream. If we do not realize that the world is like a dream, then we only replace some ideas with others that are equally illusory.
- Lama Hannah Nydahl.

Quotes the wisest people of different times, views, activities and are still relevant and popular today.

Confucius

Quotes the wisest philosophers- these are brief conclusions of their constant reflections on the world and human nature. The Chinese thinker was already considered the best teacher of his time at the age of 23. - the heritage of not only the East, its heritage belongs to everyone.

Knowledge is a great goal. But different paths can lead to it. Reflection is a noble path, the path of imitation is easy, the path of experience is dangerous and bitter.
Hatred is the lot of the vanquished.
In a state that is in good order, one can be brave in speech and action. Where there is no order, courage is forgiven, and one must be careful with speeches.
The avenger must prepare two funeral pyres.
Give advice only when asked.
Life has brought a lot of complexity into it.
Thoughtless little things can ruin a serious matter.
If you don't keep up with your words, you can embarrass yourself.
A smart person makes demands from himself, a stupid person makes demands from others.
The war against evil must begin today, not tomorrow.
Anyone who loves his job does not have a hard time getting up for work in the morning.
Don't be upset when they don't understand you. But when you don’t understand society, it’s sad.
An educated person is one who has studied science for self-improvement, not to amaze.
We curse the darkness all our lives, and only a few even think of lighting a fire.
Beauty is present in every grain of sand that surrounds us. You just need to notice it.
A noble and honest soul is serene. The soul of a low order is an eternal concern.
If you get spit from behind, rejoice - you overtook everyone.
All people fell once, but only the truly great could get up and move on.

Ernest Hemingway

Great quotes from the wisest writers are a treasure trove of thoughts and observations. The short sayings of Hemingway, an American author, made a significant contribution to the literature of the 20th century.

There are people who are easy to be with, but you can do without them. It’s very difficult with others, but they cannot be replaced by anything.
My main rule is in public.
Try to do your friend even a small favor.
You don't judge a person by his friends. Judas had good friends.
A great way to test a person is to trust him.
An intellectual should drink wine once a year to face his stupidity.
Humans are not made to fail.
A smart person is rarely truly happy.
A person cannot exist alone.
I don't care what world I live in. I just want to understand how to live in it.
If you are happy, then there is nothing to be ashamed of.
I've met a lot of women who are good in bed. And there are few women who are good at conversation.

Winston Churchill. Great wise quotes

The English figure was not only involved in politics. His achievements were noted in military affairs, journalism and literature. The Prime Minister who fought against socialism in his country and throughout the world was a wise man.

With any crisis, opportunities for new achievements open up.
A smart person gives others the opportunity to do some of their stupidity.
Success is the concept of going from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
Birds fly higher when they fly against the wind.
If you are unable to change your mind, then you are simply stupid.
Capitalism is the distribution of goods in unfair parts. Socialism is a fair distribution of vulgar poverty.
The most powerful drug is power.
The lie will have time to fly halfway across the country while the Truth is fastening the buttons on its pants.
War and politics are exciting adventures. Only war kills once, but politics is capable of killing many times.
I have the simplest taste. I just want the best.
Those who made their mistakes earlier learned faster. This good advantage in front of the others.
The strangest thing in life is when a fool turns out to be right.

Wise Quotes About Love

Several works of Confucius have survived to this day, preserved thanks to the people’s veneration of the philosopher’s wisdom. In the collection “Judgments and Conversations” he gives a wonderful statement about the importance of love.

Poverty and deprivation would be unbearable if a person did not know how to love.
Happiness is measured by understanding. Great happiness is love for you, real bliss is your love.

Quotes from wise people about love are somewhat similar to Ernest Hemingway spoke about this feeling subtly, with caution.

If you lost in love once, then 1000 victories will not overshadow this defeat.

Winston Churchill spoke more specifically about women and happiness.

There is no friendship between the two sexes. Love, enmity, bed or jealousy, but not friendship.

Quotes from the wisest are vivid ones that they lived and felt with their great mind and soul.

Quite often in Everyday life we mention quotes from the wisest without even thinking about their meaning. Let's try to analyze interesting phrases, understand their deep meaning.

Writers' thoughts

Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote: “One of the most amazing misconceptions is the misconception that a person’s happiness lies in doing nothing.” Such quotes from the wisest people are filled with inner content. The author explains that a person who does not work will never be happy.

“Wisdom is only in truth,” said J. V. Goethe. He was convinced that it was necessary to think through one's thoughts when making an important decision.

Quotes from the wisest people help modern people make decisions in difficult life situations. Of course, they cannot become a “universal guide to action,” but they often help to avoid disappointment.

Catchphrases

We often use quotes from the wisest philosophers without even thinking about their origin. For example, the phrase “gifts of the Danaans” is associated with the Trojan War. Of course, it is impossible to remember all the quotes of the wisest sages, but some of them have become real catchphrases over time.

For example, the phrase “A healthy mind in a healthy body!” we remember when we are going to play sports. Many quotes from the wisest have already become a guide to action for researchers, psychologists, and teachers. Thus, Aristotle’s words “knowledge begins with wonder” are used school teachers when organizing project and research activities with children.

Quotes from the wisest about the meaning of life, love, mutual understanding between men and women have long been used as advertising slogans and used in television films.

Quotes from the wisest help describe life situations without using additional words. For example, the expression "scapegoat" has interesting story. The ancient Jews used a special ritual for the remission of sins. The priest put his hands on the goat's head, as if transferring the sin of all the Jews onto it. Then the animal was driven out into the desert. Despite the fact that a lot of time has passed, the meaning of the expression has not changed; it was transferred to a person.

Catchphrases in our lives

The phrase “Balzac age” also has unusual origin. The expression arose after the publication of Honore de Balzac’s novel, entitled “A Thirty-Year-Old Woman,” which was about a woman of 30-40 years of age. And today this expression is used to describe the age of the fair sex.

“Black sheep” are considered to be those people who are not like others. This phrase was voiced in the 7th satire of Juvenal, an ancient Roman poet who lived in the mid-1st century AD. e.

The expression “put a pig” was invented by peoples who are prevented by religion from eating pork. If they put pig meat on someone, they thereby desecrated religious beliefs. Currently, this expression indicates the commission of a dishonorable act towards another person.

The phrase “money has no smell” was uttered by the Roman emperor Vespasian (69 - 79 AD). It was about money received as a tax on public restrooms. The emperor's son tried to shame his father for this, noting that they were made of urine, but Vespasian said that they had no smell.

Tryn-grass is not a herbal medicine used to relieve anxiety. In fact, the fence used to be called “tyn”. Therefore, the expression means a weed that no one needs, that is, it grows under the fence.

“Draconian measures” were the harsh laws invented by the first legislator of the African Republic, Dracon (7th century BC). Even a person who stole vegetables was subject to the death penalty. According to legend, these laws were written in blood. And today cruel laws and harsh orders of the authorities are called “draconian measures”.

The expression “retired goat drummer” also has an interesting history. At ancient fairs it was customary to bring out trained bears. They were accompanied by a boy dressed up as a goat and a drummer who accompanied him. Nowadays, this expression refers to a frivolous, worthless person.

Conclusion

There are many interesting expressions in Russian, catch phrases, quotes spoken in different historical eras by philosophers, writers, cultural and artistic figures. For example, at the end of the 19th century, artist Richard Outcoult published frivolous drawings with humorous texts in an issue of The World newspaper. Among the pictures was a child in a yellow shirt who was uttering various funny sayings. The New York Journal published similar drawings. The editors began a dispute about the right of primacy to publish the “yellow boy”. This is how the contemptuous expression “yellow press” appeared. Some expressions have long been considered “folk”; people have forgotten about their true origin.