Looking for ideas on what to tweet? We’ve updated our Wisdom Tweets page! Here’s a page filled with quotes from popular song lyrics, from Buddha, from Seth Godin and from A Course in Miracles. All are less than 140 characters – and most less than 120 characters, which leaves room for ReTweets! All the quotes here are for you to use and share, so that you can inspire your friends on twitter (and facebook).
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Quotes from Song Lyrics
All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. – Simon and Garfunkel http://bit.ly/opy0d
All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. – Rush http://bit.ly/opy0d
An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind. – John Cougar Mellencamp http://bit.ly/opy0d
Before you accuse me take a look at yourself. – Bo Diddley; CCR; Eric Clapton http://bit.ly/opy0d
Don’t ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. – Fleetwood Mac http://bit.ly/opy0d
Even the genius asks questions. – 2 Pac http://bit.ly/opy0d
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Semisonic http://bit.ly/opy0d
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart. – Crosby, Stills, and Nash http://bit.ly/opy0d
Get your head out of the mud, baby. Put flowers in the mud, baby. – U2 http://bit.ly/opy0d
If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice? – Anthrax http://bit.ly/opy0d
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. – Rush http://bit.ly/opy0d
I’m not a number. Dammit, I’m a man. – Bob Seger http://bit.ly/opy0d
It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word. – Elton John http://bit.ly/opy0d
It’s better to burn out, than to fade away. – Neil Young http://bit.ly/opy0d
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. – REM http://bit.ly/opy0d
No matter what you do, you’ll never run away from you. – Paul Revere & the Raiders http://bit.ly/opy0d
Optimism is my best defense. – Rod Stewart http://bit.ly/opy0d
Space ain’t man’s final frontier, man’s final frontier is the soul. – Arrested Development http://bit.ly/opy0d
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, one man gathers what another man spills. – Grateful Dead http://bit.ly/opy0d
The future is so bright that I have got to wear shades. – Timbuk 3 http://bit.ly/opy0d
You don’t have to be old to be wise. – Judas Priest http://bit.ly/opy0d
When you can feel your unborn children in her eyes, you know you really love a woman. – Bryan Adams http://bit.ly/opy0d
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. – Aerosmith http://bit.ly/opy0d
You got to lose to know how to win. – Aerosmith http://bit.ly/opy0d
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom. – Arrested Development http://bit.ly/opy0d
So many people who think they can do it alone, they isolate their heads and stay in safety zones. – Beach Boys http://bit.ly/opy0d
Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child. – Pat Benatar http://bit.ly/opy0d
We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith. – Pat Benatar http://bit.ly/opy0d
Good luck is a frame of mind. – Black Crows http://bit.ly/opy0d
The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
There’s a magical layer of love that’s laced, designed to take us to a higher place. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Just another point of view, I’m just a reflection of you. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Facts all come with points of view. – Talking Heads http://bit.ly/opy0d
If we can live together, the dream it may come true. – Talking Heads http://bit.ly/opy0d
I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick. – Barry White http://bit.ly/opy0d
I recommend that you try a little mental floss. – Jimmy Buffett http://bit.ly/opy0d
I never lost one minute of sleep worrying about the way things might have been. – Creedence Clearwater Revival http://bit.ly/opy0d
Who’ll take a leaf and grow it into a tree? – Creedence Clearwater Revival http://bit.ly/opy0d
Talent will always emerge in time, when lightening hits small wonder. – The Clash http://bit.ly/opy0d
Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition. – Coolio http://bit.ly/opy0d
The only real person you need to know is you. – Alice Cooper http://bit.ly/opy0d
After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are. – Jim Croce http://bit.ly/opy0d
Moving ahead, so life won’t pass me by. – Jim Croce http://bit.ly/opy0d
Freedom scares you because it means responsibility. – Dead Kennedys http://bit.ly/opy0d
Any kind of real change takes more time and work than changing channels on a TV set. – Dead Kennedys http://bit.ly/opy0d
Quotes from A Course in Miracles
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
No evidence will convince you of the truth of what you do not want. – A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true. – A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Intro)- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
There are no idle thoughts. – A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Only those who give over all desire to reject can know that their own rejection is impossible.- ACIM http://bit.ly/opy0d
The ego lives by comparisons. – A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The ego cannot survive without judgment.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Love will immediately enter into any mind that truly wants it.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
A therapist doesn’t heal, he lets healing be.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly. To desire wholly is to create.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The world is only in the mind of its maker. Do not believe it is outside of yourself.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
If you did not feel guilty, you could not attack.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Don’t deny yourself the message of relief that every brother offers you now.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
God calls and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Nothing you see means anything alone.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
What you would hide is hidden from you.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
To the ego, the mind is private.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
There is nothing outside you.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Let your self be one with something beyond it.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
It is impossible to seek for pleasure through the body and not find pain.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Give faith to one another, for faith and hope and mercy are yours to give.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The world the holy see is beautiful because they see their innocence in it.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The world believes in sin, but the belief that made it as you see it is not outside you.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
In your brother is the light. See him as sinless, and there can be no fear in you.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Perception selects, and makes the world you see.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Reason cannot see sin, but can see errors.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The memory of God comes to the quiet mind.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
A decision is a conclusion based on everything you believe.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The special have enemies, for they are different and not the same.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The death of specialness is not your death, but your awakening into life eternal.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The miracle but calls your ancient name.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Pain’s purpose is the same as pleasure, for they both are means to make the body real.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Are you afraid to find a loss of self in finding God?- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
It is never the idol that you want, but what you think it offers you.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Let forgiveness be the substitute for fear. This is the only rule for happy dreams.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Only the self-accused condemn.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
I see only the past.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.- A Course in Miracles http://bit.ly/opy0d
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart. – Crosby, Stills, and Nash http://bit.ly/opy0d
Get your head out of the mud, baby. Put flowers in the mud, baby. – U2 http://bit.ly/opy0d
If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice? – Anthrax http://bit.ly/opy0d
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. – Rush http://bit.ly/opy0d
I’m not a number. Dammit, I’m a man. – Bob Seger http://bit.ly/opy0d
It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word. – Elton John http://bit.ly/opy0d
It’s better to burn out, than to fade away. – Neil Young http://bit.ly/opy0d
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. – REM http://bit.ly/opy0d
No matter what you do, you’ll never run away from you. – Paul Revere & the Raiders http://bit.ly/opy0d
Optimism is my best defense. – Rod Stewart http://bit.ly/opy0d
Space ain’t man’s final frontier, man’s final frontier is the soul. – Arrested Development http://bit.ly/opy0d
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, one man gathers what another man spills. – Grateful Dead http://bit.ly/opy0d
The future is so bright that I have got to wear shades. – Timbuk 3 http://bit.ly/opy0d
You don’t have to be old to be wise. – Judas Priest http://bit.ly/opy0d
When you can feel your unborn children in her eyes, you know you really love a woman. – Bryan Adams http://bit.ly/opy0d
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. – Aerosmith http://bit.ly/opy0d
You got to lose to know how to win. – Aerosmith http://bit.ly/opy0d
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom. – Arrested Development http://bit.ly/opy0d
So many people who think they can do it alone, they isolate their heads and stay in safety zones. – Beach Boys http://bit.ly/opy0d
Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child. – Pat Benatar http://bit.ly/opy0d
We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith. – Pat Benatar http://bit.ly/opy0d
Good luck is a frame of mind. – Black Crows http://bit.ly/opy0d
The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
There’s a magical layer of love that’s laced, designed to take us to a higher place. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Just another point of view, I’m just a reflection of you. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it. – Bootsy Collins http://bit.ly/opy0d
Facts all come with points of view. – Talking Heads http://bit.ly/opy0d
If we can live together, the dream it may come true. – Talking Heads http://bit.ly/opy0d
I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick. – Barry White http://bit.ly/opy0d
I recommend that you try a little mental floss. – Jimmy Buffett http://bit.ly/opy0d
I never lost one minute of sleep worrying about the way things might have been. – Creedence Clearwater Revival http://bit.ly/opy0d
Who’ll take a leaf and grow it into a tree? – Creedence Clearwater Revival http://bit.ly/opy0d
Talent will always emerge in time, when lightening hits small wonder. – The Clash http://bit.ly/opy0d
Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition. – Coolio http://bit.ly/opy0d
The only real person you need to know is you. – Alice Cooper http://bit.ly/opy0d
After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are. – Jim Croce http://bit.ly/opy0d
Moving ahead, so life won’t pass me by. – Jim Croce http://bit.ly/opy0d
Freedom scares you because it means responsibility. – Dead Kennedys http://bit.ly/opy0d
Any kind of real change takes more time and work than changing channels on a TV set. – Dead Kennedys http://bit.ly/opy0d
Quotes from Seth Godin
You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. – Tribes Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you’re getting close to doing something important.-Linchpin Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
The easiest thing is to react. The 2nd easiest is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.-Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. – Linchpin Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
“How was your day?” is a question that matters a lot more than it seems. – Tribes Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Well, if you don’t have time to do it right, what makes you think you’ll have time to do it over? – Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
All our successes are the same. All our failures, too.- Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
We succeed when we do something remarkable.- Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
We fail when we give up too soon. – Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
We succeed when we are the best in the world at what we do. – Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
We fail when we get distracted by task we don’t have the guts to quit. – The Dip Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Anticipated, personal and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Share of wallet is easier, more profitable and ultimately more effective a measure than share of market. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Marketing begins before the product is created. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Products that are remarkable get talked about. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
People don’t buy what they need. They buy what they want. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
You’re not in charge. And your prospects don’t care about you. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love. Seth Godin http://bit.ly/opy0d
Quotes from Buddha
Speak or act with an impure mind, and trouble will follow you.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
In every trial, let understanding fight for you – Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Whoever follows impure thoughts, suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly – Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Desire never crosses the path of virtuous and wakeful men.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far but the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain ,there is only sorrow.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Free yourself from attachment.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
By your own folly you will be brought as low as you worst enemy wishes.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself & live joyfully. You are the master.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Look not for recognition but follow the awakened and set yourself free.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing you go beyond sorrow.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
The wise have mastered Body, word and mind. – Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Does the spoon taste the soup? A fool may live all his life in the company of a master and still miss the way.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Be quick to do good .If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Happiness or sorrow -Whatever befalls you, Walk on Untouched, unattached.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it..- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Do not live in the world in distraction and false dreams outside the dharma.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. – Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond!- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
If you are happy at the expense of another man’s happiness, you are forever bound.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Be the witness of your thoughts.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Gray hairs do not make a master. A man may grow old in vain.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate and follow the dharma you will free yourself from desire.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong .For whatever you do, you do to yourself.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Weeds choke the field. Passion poisons the nature of man – Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, nhon-violence, moderation and purity.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
You are the source of all purity and impurity.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Seeker! Do not be restless. Meditate constantly.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
How easy it is to see your brother’s faults; how hard it is to face your own.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
There is pleasure and there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
Live joyfully, without desire.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.- Buddha http://bit.ly/opy0d