The wisdom quotes on this page are all from sources and authors surnames beginning with M. The other pages are: A, B, C & D, E & F, G & H, I – L, N – Q, R & S, T & U, V – Z. There is also a page of Wisdom Sayings and a condensed page of 100 Inspirational Words Of Wisdom (a selection from all of the wisdom pages.)
Wisdom Quotes: M
Harvey MacKay 1932
Happiness can be thought, taught and caught.. But not bought.
Harvey MacKay 1932
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.
Archibald Macleish 1892 -1982
Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.
Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Sargy Mann 1937 – 2015
I had to sort of re-invent painting for myself, it seemed sort of more or less impossible but, if you’re determined to keep on going, you know you don’t need to give up because if you subject is your own experience then as long as you’re having an experience you’ve got a subject, and that has turned out to be true, even into total blindness.
Steve Maraboli
If you hang out with the chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with the eagles, you’re going to fly.
Steve Maraboli
Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit and bring your drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.
Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
One Love, One Heart, Let’s get together and feel alright.
Matthew-Suzanne Ward
Love and Light are one and the same energy, the most powerful force in the cosmos and the key to transforming your world.
The power of the mind affects every circumstances in one’s life. What a person believes is her or his reality, however far removed that may be from the facts.
Somerset Maugham 1874 – 1965
We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love.
John Maxwell
Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004
Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
Patience is.. Clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a Divine rhythm of life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daises to see how the roots are doing.
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time.. Because we belong to eternity.
While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.
J. P. McEvoy 1895 – 1958
Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.
E. C. McKenzie
The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
Kim McMillan 1996
When I loved myself enough.. I became my own authority by listening to the wisdom of the heart. This is how God speaks to me. This is intuition.
When I loved myself enough.. I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.
Margaret Mead 1901 – 1978
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Michael Meade 1944
If each person has natural gifts and innate talents, then the true nature of education must involve the Awakening, inviting and blessing of the inner genius and unique life spirit of each young person.
Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Karl Menninger 1893 – 1990
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Alfred Mercier
What we learn with pleasure.. We never forget.
Thomas Merton 1915 – 1968
Our ideas of God tell us more about ourselves than about Him.
Bradley Millar
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Donald Miller 1971
When you stop expecting people to be perfect.. You can like them for who they are.
Henry Miller 1891 – 1980
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Karen Maezen Miller
Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things the way they are.
Dan Millman 1946
There is no path to happiness… Happiness is the path.
There is no path to Love… Love is the path.
There is no path to peace… Peace is the path.
A. A. Milne 1882 – 1956
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
A girl knows her limits…. But a wise girl knows she has none.
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
Not being able to govern events… I govern myself.
The only thing certain is… nothing is certain.
Charles de Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
George Moore 1852 – 1933
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Anita Moorjani
Neither gender is superior to or inferior to the other – each has important qualities that are needed to make a complete and balanced whole. That whole is not only much greater than the sum of its individual parts, but much grander than we can possibly comprehend.
We are an expression of Divine Energy.
Christopher Morley 1890 – 1957
There is only one rule for being a good talker… learn to listen.
There is only one success.. To be able to spend your life in your own way.
Mary Manin Morrissey 1949
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Movies
Harry Potter
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the Light.
Movies
Harry Potter
It is our choices that describe who we are, much more than our abilities.
Hitch
Never lie, cheat, steal or drink. But… if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
Mulan
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Pirates Of The Carribean
The problem is not the problem.. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Pocahontas
You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.
The Matrix
If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
The Neverending Story
Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.
Movies
The Wizard Of Oz
You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
John Muir 1838 – 1914
When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the Universe.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
As the number of old people will grow, the world will gain in wisdom.
Each day of life is precious even incredibly precious: therefore write the history of each day. Keep a journal. Preserve your life. Journal keeping should be taught in all schools of Earth.
Each one of us is a temple of God
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
Every human being has stories to tell. Please tell them. They are part of the bloodstream of our cosmic journey, the transmission of our experience and wisdom to our descendants.
Humans will not admire my bank account after my death, but they might admire me for the person I was, for my writings, my achievements, my efforts, the messages I left.
If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
In the new age, morality and spirituality must catch up with science and materialism.
Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
Learn proverbs. Speak in proverbs. Teach with proverbs. They are humanity’s most condensed form of wisdom.
Look who is still best remembered by humankind and who has still the largest number of followers. Is it politicians? No. Is is conquerors? No. Is it rich people? No. Is it scientists? No. But remembered are philosophers, religious prophets, great visionaries, saints and artists. This should give us a clue to the most permanent human values.
Love is the motor of perfect life.
Love the road of your life. There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.
wisdom quoteRobert Muller 1923 – 2010
My physical body may be less efficient and less beautiful in old age. But God has given me an enormous compensation: my mind is richer my Soul is broader and my wisdom is at a peak. I am so happy with the riches of my advance peak age that contrary to Faust, I would not wish to return to youth.
Never cease to learn life from yourself and from others. Write it all down to perfect yourself and to impart your wisdom to those who will follow.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
No university on Earth gives master’s degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
Observe your children closely: they have often fundamental approaches and answers to the mysteries of life which we have lost as adults.
Joey & SethRobert Muller 1923 – 2010
Older people are closer to God. Therefore, they are better transmitters of wisdom and spirituality.
Open your heart.. That is where your genius is.
Speak the language of the heart. Its warmth penetrates deeper than cold intelligence.
Tell me who your heroes are and I will know who you are.
The Earth is a macrocosm of each individual and each individual is a microcosm of the Earth. Humanity is the macrocosm of each individual and each individual is a microcosm of humanity.
The negativism and unhappiness of human society is organized on a colossal scale by those who benefit from them.
The richest product of advance, old age is wisdom and story telling.
The sand of my life is running out.. Is it white, black or golden sand?
There is often a great strength in stillness: a fallow land recuperates its energy.
Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your heart. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
To receive thoughts can be as important as to think.
Use the freest goods for happiness… The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.
We are all co-responsible for this planet.
We are all passengers on the same planet sailing towards eternity on the vast ocean of the Universe.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
We do not see the world as it is.. We see it as we are taught to see it. The same is generally true of our view of humanity, of the Universe, of history and of ourselves. Free yourself, escape from the possible falsehoods.
We just have to remember that we are one people and this is one world.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.
Wise elderly persons should become gurus. The teaching of wisdom should be the main function of the third age. We should create third age universities or at least faculties.
You will never be really happy if you don’t understand that producers and merchants must constantly create new unhappiness in order to sell more goods and new goods to you.
