Wisdom
Quotes that inspire reflection and understanding of life.
"Terbang sendirian tinggi di udarakaulah Sang Helang... milik angkasarayabukan milik pepohonan... tempat engkau melepaskan lelah"
"Those who value wisdom know that when you give people something for nothing, you produce ungrateful people; that when you obscure the differences between men and women, you end up with many aimless men and angry women; that when you give children “self-esteem” without their earning it, you produce narcissists who enter adulthood often incapable of empathy and of handling life; that if you do not destroy evil, it will proliferate; and that if you are kind to the cruel, you will end up being cruel to the kind. If you really want goodness to prevail, wisdom is a key to unlocking it. The heart is not."
"It is our harsh fate on earth that body and soul should be so closely bound together; that the soul should have to drag the body along, should be exposed to its vicissitudes, should even respond to them. This primal curse has always weighed heavily upon us; but how much more heavily under a religious law which compels us to endure this outrageous condition; which will not permit our honor, when it is imperiled, to save itself by casting aside the body, and seeking refuge in the world of the spirit!"
"People say that a dog can sense the longing of a person, so perhaps he's barking in response to your heart."
"As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed."
"To take a leap, you must hope not to fall."
"Insecurities are like mosquitos, you try to get rid of them but they still come back."
"It's not about how fast you are during any race but it's about your ability to dodge the obstacles in front of you."
"Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion."
"We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face."
"The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death."
"To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death."
"We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion."
"She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art."
"Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities."
"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity."
"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies."
"To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it."
"We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity."
"TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death."
"Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous"
"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?"