A Quote by Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Wayne Dyer

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Avoiding Thoughts Wisdom

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Wayne Dyer
American - Psychologist
May 10, 1940 - August 29, 2015

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

Mark Tobey

Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us - we're avoiding the encounters, but we're also afraid to deal with something unknown, unseen.

Michal Rovner

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

Andre Ward

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Horace

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

William Cowper

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

Ford Madox Ford

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Lady Violet

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Kristin Cashore

From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root.

Ramana Maharshi

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

George Hackenschmidt

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.