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“Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”

Humans Hard Wisdom Sleep Fool Sorrow Advantage Boat Streams Vessel Free Yourself

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.”

Knows Way Hard Wisdom Form Sound Water Perfect Know How Cold Drink Perfection Hot Perceive Subtle Drink Water

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.”

Stills Soul Hard Wisdom Courses Causes Wise Pride Holy Everyday Tolerance Eras Remarkable Cash Currency Smooth Everyday Life Civility

Book:Before the Sabbath

Source: Before the Sabbath

“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”

Firsts Hard Wisdom Hate Causes Common Support Courage Knowing Wise Lessons Seeking Common Sense Abandon Being Wise Forsake

Author:Philip Gulley

“My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.”

Wells Self Hard Wisdom Faces Felt Powerful Grief Comfortable And Love Aging Self Confidence Forty Dew Tapping

Author:Nancy A. Collins

“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”

Ifs Hard Wisdom America Mother Doubt Determined Checks Ambitious Elephants Charging Rhinos

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.”

Hard Wisdom Subjects Infinite Finite

Book:Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.”

Hard Wisdom Politics Poverty Economy Core Liberalism Affluence Counterparts Hard Core Apex

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.”