Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none… — King David Copy Share Image
“Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
Worldly relationship are just temporary. Make your relationship with God stronger, because when everyone gives up on you He's right by your… — Drusila T Copy Share Image
Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness,… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act,… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
She gestured toward his very fine chest with her pencil. “On the off chance I find out after we’re married that your… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If you are visiting someone and his wife feeds you a wonderful meal, you should be grateful but you should not wish… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face,… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
“As long as one’s vision does not move towards the soul (Self is not realized), everything is just worldly life.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away.… — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image