There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.
Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that he will respond in what He chooses for you, and not what you choose for yourself, and at the time He chooses not the time you desire.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them
People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.
Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions proceed. All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible No way to explain it! All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man who can attain To this non-doing?
Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.