Quotes about advice

Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it. Never turn down a good idea, but never take a bad idea. And meditate. It's very important to experience that Self, that pure consciousness. It's really helped me. I think it would help any filmmaker. So start diving within, enlivening that bliss consciousness. Grow in happiness and intuition. Experience the joy of doing. And you'll glow in this peaceful way. Your friends will be very, very happy with you. Everyone will want to sit next to you. And people will give you money!

No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness. If it tastes bitter, spit it out. That's what our earliest ancestors did.

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

...Seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."