Wise Sayings

Words of wisdom abound. We are all authors and life is our teacher. Each one of us has knowledge to share about what we've discovered and learned along the way. However, a greater purpose is served only when the words of wisdom we pass on are those that will help others along. Given below is a compilation of many wise sayings, about life, love and relationships. Some of them may offer you a new though, while others will have you nodding in union saying "so true".

Wise Sayings...

... About Life

"To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was you." - Unknown

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." - Greg Anderson

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." - Kahlil Gibran

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little." - Pope John XXIII

"Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow." - Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." - Victor Hugo

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." - Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles

"What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known." - Samuel Johnson

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - Kahlil Gibran

... About Love

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Kahlil Gibran

"Love is like water; we can fall in it, we can drown in it and we can't live without it." - Unknown

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" - Stephen Levine

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive." - Orlando A. Battista

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have." - Sir James M. Barrie

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable." - Henry Ward Beecher

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." - Anna Louise Strong

... About Relationships

"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need." - Margaret Mead

"Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you." ~Author Unknown

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." - Swedish Proverb

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough

"There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are." - Anonymous

"Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." - Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." - Henry Winkle

"Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us." - Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." - Kahlil Gibran

"Are we not like two volumes of one book?" - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important." - Carl Reiner

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore.

... From the Bible

"Do to others as you would have them do to you." - Luke 6:31

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:13

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." - Ephesians 4:2

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." - 1 Peter 4:8

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:18

"The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." - Mark 12:31

" Do to others as you would have them do to you." - Luke 6:31

"But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without
expecting to get anything back. " - Luke 6:35

"Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin." - John 8:34

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." - Ephesians 4:2

"Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing." - Proverbs 12:18

I hope you enjoyed reading through these sayings and have learned a thing or two. I hope they provide you food for though, and encourage you to explore ideas and concepts that you haven't before.