Be a Mirror
Posted by Philosophical Wisdom
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and transcendentalist
Nature Wisdom
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on dawn and gleaming on the sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
— John Muir in The Wilderness World of John Muir
Cliché Wisdom
Don't rain on anyone else's parade.
Movie Lines
Try. There is no try. There is only do or not do.
— Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Literary Wisdom
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, musician, and artist
Sufi Wisdom (for Ramadan)
There's hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and the belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment a new song comes out
of the fire.
— Jelaluddin Rumi in The Essential Rumi
Relationship Wisdom
There are never enough "I love you's."
— Lenny Bruce, American stand-up comedian and social critic