Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom quotes for a variety of occasions: shed light, help keep perspective, inspire, motivate or energize. I try to be selective in picking quotes, including only those quotes that I find meaningful, challenging, inspiring or interesting. These wisdom quotes are sorted by topic and author. Below, you can find new quotes recently added and a random selection. Let me know on Facebook if you enjoy the Wisdom Quotes site!

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

Mark Nepo

If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

John A. Sandford

There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in ...

Leonard Cohen

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Pema Chodron 

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Pema Chodron

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Eleanor Roosevelt   (more)

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

Ruth Stout

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

Peggy Noonan

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Pema Chodron

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Pema Chodron