We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown, blame yourself for going to the circus.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. @ -Jim Rohn
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. @ -Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. @ -Osho
The kindest hearts have felt the most pains.
May you live every day of your life. @ -Jonathan Swift
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. @ -Mother Teresa
Wisdom begins in wonder. @ -Socrates
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. @ -William F. Scolavino
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. @ -Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. @ -W.M. Lewis
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. @ -Albert Einstein
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. @ -William Shakespeare
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. @ -Albert Einstein
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. @ -Abraham Lincoln
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. @ -George Herbert
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. @ -Paulo Coelho
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. @ -Patrick Rothfuss
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. @ -George Santayana
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. @ -John Lennon
Never make permanent decisions based on temporary feelings.
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief. @ -Oprah Winfrey
To grow up is a disappointment, to make the best of it is maturity.
If it is not necessary to decide, it is necessary not to decide. @ -Lord Acton
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside. @ -Naval Ravikant
Observe all men, thyself most. @ -Benjamin Franklin
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. @ -Dalai Lama
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. @ -Donald A. Adams
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. @ -Oscar Wilde
A closed mouth catches no flies. @ -Miguel de Cervantes
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. @ -Voltaire
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The experience of life offers you what flows from you.
Move too fast through life and you might miss the whole point of it.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
Don't try to understand everything, because sometimes it isn't meant to be understood, but to be accepted.
Let the past make you better, not bitter.
I'm wise because I've been foolish.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. @ -Lao Tzu
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what is right, not what is easy. @ -Roy T. Bennett
Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have.
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. @ -Patrick Ness
Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. @ -Deepak Chopra
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today. @ -Japanese Haiku
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. @ -Abigail Van Buren
Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending. @ -Jim Henson
The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it. @ -Katherine Whilehaen
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. @ -Aristotle
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. @ -Jerry Gillies
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. @ -Elbert Hubbard
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. @ -Rumi
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart. @ -Pearl S. Buck
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. @ -Albert Einstein
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not afraid... I was BORN for this. @ -Joan of Arc
Take time like the river that never grows stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry, no rush. @ -Rumi
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. @ -Colette
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission. @ -Rudolf Steiner
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. @ -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I rebel; therefore I exist. @ -Albert Camus
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life and don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. @ -Steve Jobs
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. @ -William Arthur Ward
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. @ -J.K. Rowling
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. @ -Mark Twain
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. @ -Niels Bohr
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. @ -Voltaire
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. @ -Victor Hugo
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. @ -Aristotle
Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off. @ -Proverbs 24:14
If you've never eaten while crying you don't know what life tastes like. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Listen to many, speak to a few. @ -William Shakespeare
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. @ -Albert Einstein
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. @ -Paulo Coelho
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. @ -Lee Brown
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. @ -Stephen Covey
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
What you seek is seeking you. @ -Rumi
Wear your wisdom with silence in front of fools.
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. @ -Emerson
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. @ -Paulo Coelho
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. @ -Alden Nowlan
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. @ -Vernon Cooper
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. @ -Cherokee Expression
I exist as I am, that is enough. @ -Walt Whitman
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. @ -Maya Angelou
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. @ -Socrates
Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. @ -Helen Keller
Nature does nothing uselessly. @ -Aristotle
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. @ -Langston Hughes
It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. @ -Sara E. Anderson
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. @ -Samuel Johnson
Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions. @ -Gail Pursell Elliott
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. @ -Helen Keller
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. @ -N. Scott Momaday
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. @ -Mark Twain
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. @ -Rumi
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. @ -Martha Graham
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. @ -Les Brown
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. @ -Albert Einstein
I'm not young enough to know everything. @ -J.M. Barrie
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. @ -Jonathan Swift
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. @ -Rumi
Wise is he who collects the wisdom of others. @ -Juan Guerra Caceras
Never confuse motion with action. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Love is too young to know what conscience is. @ -William Shakespeare
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. @ -Victor Hugo
What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing. @ -Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Close both eyes to see with the other eye. @ -Rumi
The unexamined life is not worth living. @ -Socrates
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Success is an iceberg.
Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty. @ -Kilian Jornet
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. @ -Albert Einstein
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. @ -William Faulkner
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headed. @ -Lao Tzu
My life is perfect even when it's not. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action. @ -Nathaniel Branden
Passion is born deaf and dumb. @ -Honoré de Balzac
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Give out what you want to get back.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. @ -F. Scott Fitzgerald
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. @ -Mark Twain
Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lesson in life. @ -Buddha
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits. @ -Alan Cohen
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. @ -Jimi Hendrix
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. @ -Bruce Lee
It takes a calm mind to be able to consider things from different angles and points of view. @ -14th Dalai Lama
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. @ -John Landis Mason
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. @ -Mark Twain
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. @ -Leo C. Rosten
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. @ -Martin Luther King
Life is not always a celebration; so be ready to courageously face disappointments when they come, and be sure to grow stronger and wiser from them. @ -Edmond Mbiaka
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. @ -Kahlil Gibran
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind. @ -F. Scott Fitzgerald
You do not find the happy life. You make it. @ -Camilla Eyring Kimball
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. @ -Howard Washington Thurman
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. @ -Stedman Graham
Think before you speak. Read before you think. @ -Fran Lebowitz
When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you. @ -Betty Sue Flowers
Understanding is the key to getting over disappointment.
There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself. @ -John MacEnulty
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. @ -Sir Boyle Roche
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. @ -Thomas Paine
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. @ -Malcolm Forbes
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. @ -Alexander the Great
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want. @ -Alan Cohen
Silence is true wisdom's best reply. @ -Euripides
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. @ -Konrad Adenauer
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it. @ -Michelangelo
Know thyself. @ -Socrates
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. @ -Georg Hegel
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. @ -Mark Twain
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Patience is the companion of wisdom. @ -Augustine of Hippo
The journey matters more than the destination. @ -Tony Fahkry
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. @ -Alexandre Dumas
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. @ -Lao Tzu
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. @ -Anthony Bourdain
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. @ -Stephen R. Covey
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility. @ -Albert Einstein
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. @ -Jess C. Scott
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. @ -M. Scott Peck
To do two things at once is to do neither. @ -Publilius Syrus
The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. @ -Dejan Stojanovic
The wise speak softly, for their words do not attempt to convince. @ -James Pierce
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. @ -Mason Cooley
Turn your wounds into wisdom. @ -Oprah Winfrey
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. @ -Roberto Assagioli
How you spend every day is how you spend your life.
Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. @ -Drake
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. @ -Zen Proverb
Don't mistake silence for weakness. Smart people don't plan big moves out loud.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. @ -Rumi
Life is a journey, not a destination. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it.
Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant. @ -Deepak Chopra
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. @ -Jim Rohn
We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
To find yourself, think for yourself. @ -Socrates
There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. @ -Kurt Hahn
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. @ -Isaac Asimov
It is wiser to find out than suppose. @ -Mark Twain
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. -John A. Shedd
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. @ -Rumi
Wisdom comes only through suffering. @ -Aeschylus
Imagination… Is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness. @ -Melowpark College
If you judge, investigate. @ -Seneca
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. @ -Warren Buffett
Doubt is the origin of wisdom. @ -Augustine of Hippo
All of life is a near-death experience. @ -Alan Harris
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. @ -Albert Einstein
The past has no power over the present moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Life is not discovery of fate; it is continuous creation of future, through choices of thoughts, feelings and actions in the present. @ -Sanjay Sahay
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. @ -Bertrand Russell
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. @ -Carl Sandburg
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. @ -William Faulkner
To thine own self be true. @ -William Shakespeare
Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. @ -Alan Cohen
The highest result of education is tolerance. @ -Helen Keller
Don't settle, and don't struggle. @ -Naval Ravikant
If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself. @ -Rumi
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. @ -Ram Dass
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. @ -Marjorie Pay Hinckley
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Maturity comes with experience, not age.
There's always some truth behind "just kidding", knowledge behind every "I don't know", emotions behind "I don't care" and pain behind "it's okay".
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. @ -Confucius
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. @ -Henry Van Dyke
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. @ -Isaac Asimov
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. @ -Confucius
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Don't go through life, grow through life. @ -Eric Butterworth
Angry people are not always wise. @ -Jane Austen
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. @ -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
With wisdom, comes the desire for simplicity.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. @ -Ken Hudgins
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. @ -William Shakespeare
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. @ -Epictetus
Memory is the old, and it is afraid of the new. @ -Osho
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. @ -Spanish proverb
Doubt grows with knowledge. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conscience doth make cowards of us all. @ -William Shakespeare
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. @ -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection. @ -Drake
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. @ -Barbara Geraci
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. @ -Gail Sheehy
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. @ -Joseph Campbell
Stay quiet and let others reveal their personalities before sharing with them.
The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. @ -Irene C. Kassorla
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. @ -Barbara Hall
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. @ -Douglas MacArthur
The time is always right to do what is right. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. @ -Truman Capote
What makes night within us may leave stars. @ -Victor Hugo
I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own. @ -Nikola Tesla
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. @ -George S. Patton
I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. @ -Jeffrey McDaniel
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. @ -Thomas Carlyle
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. @ -Carl Jung
Just do your best and to hell the rest.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. @ -Wendell Berry
Everything popular is wrong. @ -Oscar Wilde
On average, the deeper people's knowledge of a topic, the more calmly they talk about it. @ -Paul Graham
Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway. @ -Guy Laliberte
Intuition can make the decision for you.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. @ -Karen Casey
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. @ -Bertolt Brecht
If something surprises you again and again, stop being surprised.
Hard lessons are useful in life to make better decisions going forward.
The prettiest eyes have cried the most.
You will never stumble onto success, you will work for it.
