Quotes of: Sages Keyword

Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.

Yiddish

He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May.

Latin

Many people pretend to be in thought, proving thought to be a beautiful thing. But the bald man doesn’t need a comb, the tiger doesn’t need weapons, the fool doesn’t need thought. The person with no needs is practically a sage, but the sage als...

Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Latin

With those who are kind the sage is kind With those who are not kind the sage is also kind because the way of Tao is kindness

Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator

The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?

Bards and Sages Quarterly

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take care of ourselves.

Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself. A foolish sage is one who forgets this. Remember, or come full circle.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

Pleased to meet you." Sage said, offering his hand. "The pleasure is all mine," Rayna Purred. "Unless ofcourse, it's all Clea's which is even better." Sage smiled and might have even blushed a bit, which was highly entertaining.

Elixir

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

One was an ancient tortoiseshell cat with arthritis, who creaked around the house--but when Aunt Sibby flickered her fingers and crooned, danced on his hind legs like a kitten.

Parsley Sage, Rosemary & Time

A more common explanation for the feeling of being Old in Soul is tied up in Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation, or metempsychosis. Interestingly, this is most likely where the origin of the phrase “Old Soul” came from in the first place.

Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather "opens things up to the light of Heaven" by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attuned to this flow, the sage need make no special effo...

Hakim Bey

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Pink

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Sarah Lacy

Respectable and elite careers are of no interest to the Old Soul who is much too tired to join in with the “my house is bigger than your house” games of society. If the Old Soul has to work, any job will usually do. It's very uncommon to find Old...

Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and d...

The Scarlet Letter