Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. — Umar Copy Share Image
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd… — William Blake Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness… — Peter J. Gomes Copy Share Image
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Besides the Self [Soul], what is everything else? It is all worldly interactions (vyavahar). And worldly interaction is dependent on the non-Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image