Timeless Wisdom Quotes
Ideas and wisdom from humans across the ages
that inspires us to live a more conscious life.
Body
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the
Whole cosmos- the trees, the clouds, everything.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Take care of your body, It’s the only place you have to live.”
– Jim Rohn
“The Greatest Wealth is Health.”
- Virgil
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. “
- B.K.S. Iyengar
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat,
can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
– Deepak Chopra
“The best six doctors anywhere, and no one can deny it are
sunshine, water, rest, and air, exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend if only you are willing.
Your mind they’ll ease, your will they’ll mend,
and charge you not a shilling.”
- Wayne Fields
“M-E-D-S is a simple strategy.
Meditation. Exercise. Diet. Sleep.
- Nicholas Bate
“The food you eat can either be the
safest and most powerful form of medicine
or the slowest form of poison.”
- Ann Wigmore
“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.”
- Hippocrates
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
- Michael Pollan
“Exercise is optional. Movement is essential.
Exercise is a modern invention. Movement is ancient. Movement was here first.
Movement is what the human body was designed for.”
- Ben Medder
“Doctors won’t make you healthy.
Nutritionists won’t make you slim.
Teachers won’t make you smart.
Gurus won’t make you calm.
Mentors won’t make you rich.
Trainers won’t make you fit.
Ultimately, you have to take responsibility.
To save yourself.”
- Naval Revikant
“Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it.
Watch your life transform and be healthy.”
- Bella Bleue
“A Healer’s power stems not from any special ability,
but from maintaining the Courage and Awareness
to embody and express the Universal Healing Power
that every human being naturally possesses.”
- Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Primum Non Ncere.”
“First Do No Harm.”
- Hippocrates
Mind
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
- George Santayana
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself,
to become what he potentially is."
- Erich Fromm
“Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.
If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?
Is the picture one you think worth painting?
You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.”
-Thomas Dreier
“You are the Designer of your destiny;
You are the Author of your story.”
- Lisa Nichols
“What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You are here today where your thoughts have brought you,
You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
- James Lane Allen
“Watch your Thoughts, they become your Words;
Watch your Words, they become your Actions;
Watch your Actions, they become your Habits;
Watch your Habits, they become your Character;
Watch your Character, it becomes your Destiny.”
- Lao Tzu
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.”
- Wayne Dyer
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.”
- John Ruskin
“If not now, when? If not you, who? If not this, what?”
- Unknown
“Humanity is flying way under it’s full potential
because we don’t educate for the Whole or Complete Human Being.”
- Ken Wilber
“Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to Change the World.”
- Nelson Mandela
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, is the only kind of education there is.”
-Isaac Asimov
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
“Never stop Learning, because life never stops Teaching.”
-Unknown
“This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life:
Investment in ourselves. It is the only instrument we have
with which to deal with life and to contribute.”
-Stephen R. Covey
“Libraries are free, Websites are free, Podcasts are free,
Internet and Wifi can be free, Contents are free.
Your reason for not learning? All Bullshit.”
- Alexander Cortes
“The Five Ascending Levels of Intellect:
Smart, Intelligent, Brilliant, Genius, Simple.”
- Einstein
“The superior man is he who develops in harmonious proportion,
his moral, intellectual and physical nature.
This should be the end at which men of all class should aim,
and it is this only which constitute REAL GREATNESS.”
- Douglas Gerald
“The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development,
I used to say : “if you take care of me, I will take care of you”,
Now I say : “I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.”
– Jim Rohn
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons.
There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to
grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery.
From struggle comes strength. even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”
-Robin Sharma
“Leadership is recognizing that we are all ONE.
That every person you lead is as brilliant as you, as talented as you,
and has the same capacity for growth and accomplishment.
They simply need to be reminded of this fact.”
-Vishen Lakhiani
“Knowledge, when shared, becomes like a
Grand, Collective, Inter-Generational Collaboration.”
- Tim Urban
Emotions
“Following your feeling will lead you to their true source.
Only through emotions you can encounter
the force field of your own soul.”
- Gary Zukav
The Seat of the Soul
“There can be no knowledge without emotion.
We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
– Arnold Bennet
“It is very important to understand that Emotional Intelligence
is not the opposite of intelligence,
it is not the triumph of Heart over Head,
it is the Unique Intersection of Both.”
- David Caruso
“The river of emotion will almost always over-run the barrage of logic”
- Wasif Minhas
“In the small matters, Trust the Mind.
In the large ones, Trust the Heart.”
- Sigmund Freud
“Your visions will become clear only when you look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- Carl Jung
“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road,
for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute
for each of us to sense the fact that Life is Good, with all of its trials and troubles,
and perhaps more interesting because of them.”
-Robert R. Updegraff
“Happiness is a Choice. You are as Happy as you choose to be.
If you don’t know how to be Happy with what you have,
you will never be Happy with more.”
-Rick Warren
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say,
and what you do are in harmony.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“To be happy you have to make peace with your past,
love the present and feel excited about the future.”
- Marissa Peers
“Hack your past with Forgiveness and Gratitude,
Hack your present with Mindfulness, and
Hack your future with ‘I am Enough’.”
- Vishen Lakhiani
“You are responsible for the energy that you Create for yourself, and
You are responsible for the energy that you Bring to Others.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
- Siddhartha Gautama
Spirit
“We truly are a species with amnesia.
We have forgotten a very important part of our story.”
- Graham Hancock
"Consciousness sleeps in minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals,
and becomes self-aware in humans."
- Rumi
“We are not human beings having a Spiritual experience,
We are spiritual beings having a Human experience.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Everything is a projection of the self.
Just one being - you can call it God, I call it consciousness.
We are all in that consciousness, and living different perspectives of that consciousness.”
- Mathias De Stefano
“The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe
is the Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.”
- Walter Russel
“The Light, the Dark, No Difference.”
- Linda Star Wolf
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
- William Shakespeare
Hamlet
“The wound is where the light enters.”
“If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
- Rumi
“Our journey is about inner progress,
not perfection towards inner wholeness.”
-Carl Jung
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“You only live once. But if you live like me, once is enough.”
-Frank Sinatra
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
-Helen Keller
“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.”
-Robert M. Pirsig
“Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice,
the flow that passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment in your life.”
- Unknown
“Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
-Robert Brault
“The two most important days in your life are
the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
-Anonymous
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
-David Viscott
“It is better to do one’s Dharma, however defective it may be,
than to follow the dharma of another.”
“However well one may perform it, it is better to die doing one’s own dharma,
for to do the dharma of another is fraught with danger.”
- Bhagavad Gita
"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid."
“We must be willing to get rid of the Life we’ve Planned
So as to have the Life Waiting for Us.”
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.”
-Joseph Campbell
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that,
because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman
“This is the Shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done.
By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a featherbed.”
- Terrence McKenna
“This is the real secret of Life…
To be completely engaged with what your doing here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realized its play.”
-Alan Watt
“In the new world of work, passion and expertise are the Rosetta stone.”
-Julie Anixter
“When work is pleasure, life is a joy.
When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
-Maxim Gorky
“Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.”
- Madeline Bridges
“Always keep money in perspective.
It’s a tool—a means to an end.
But, don’t lose yourself in the means.”
- Eckhart Tolle
“If you say that money is the most important thing,
you will spend your life completely wasting your time.
You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living,
that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing.”
- Alan Watt
“Much of our everyday human experiences are
just not affected much by money.”
-80000Hours.org
“It’s easy to make a buck.
It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
-Tom Brokaw
“The real metric of Success isn’t the size of your bank account,
It’s the number of lives which you might be able to
make a Positive Difference.”
- Naveen Jain
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want
is only what you really need.”
-Vernon Howard
“Earn as much as you can,
Save as much as you can,
Invest as much as you can,
Give as much as you can.”
- John Wesley
“He has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
- Elbert Hubbard
“Do unto others what you'd have them do unto you.”
- The Golden Rule, Bible
“Power at its best is Love implementing the demands of Justice,
Justice at its best is Power correcting everything that stand against Love”
– Martin Luther King
“There are no strangers here;
Only friends you haven't yet met.”
- William Butler Yeats
“The world of Humanity is possessed of two wings:
The Male and the Female.
So long these Two Wings are not equivalent in Strength.
The Bird will not fly.”
- Abdul-Baha
“Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“While we try to teach children all about life,
our children teach us what life is about.”
– John Updike
“Community is everything to us.
It is within each other we find ourself.
See the best in others, See the best in yourself.”
– Jaina Portwood
“Imagine all the people living in peace.
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as ONE.”
- John Lennon
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to Love
and be Loved in return.”
- The song “Nature Boy” by Nat King Cole &
written by Eden Ahbez
“And now these 3 remain : Faith, Hope and Love.
But the greatest of these is Love.”
-1 Corinthians 13: 13
“We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.”
– Buckmeister Fuller
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
- Ram Das
Character
“A man’s character is his fate.”
-Heraclitus
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
-Andrew Carnegie
“It’s not enough to KNOW what you want.
You have to DO what you want to BE what you want.”
-Paulo Coelho
“We become what we want to be by
consistently being what we want to become each day.”
-Richard Scott
“The choices you make today determine your autobiography tomorrow.”
-James Altucher
“The way of a superior man is three-fold:
Virtuous, he is free from anxieties;
Wise, he is free from perplexities;
Bold, he is free from fear.”
- Confucius
“The superior man is he who develops in harmonious proportion,
his moral, intellectual and physical nature.
This should be the end at which men of all class should aim,
and it is this only which constitute REAL GREATNESS.”
- Douglas Gerald
“In the end, it is the person you become,
not the things you achieve, that is most important.”
– Les Brown
“Its never too late to be what you might have been.”
- George Elliot
“I’m a work in progress.”
- Allen Jackson