Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life. @ -Eckhart Tolle
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".
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
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. @ -Zen Proverb
Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown, blame yourself for going to the circus.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits. @ -Alan Cohen
Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lesson in life. @ -Buddha
It takes a calm mind to be able to consider things from different angles and points of view. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. @ -Barbara Geraci
We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. @ -Paulo Coelho
Stay quiet and let others reveal their personalities before sharing with them.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. @ -Rumi
Wear your wisdom with silence in front of fools.
The journey is less difficult when we find meaning in the struggle.
Don't mistake silence for weakness. Smart people don't plan big moves out loud.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. @ -Voltaire
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. @ -Jimi Hendrix
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. @ -Albert Einstein
We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never make permanent decisions based on temporary feelings.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. @ -Thomas Jefferson
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. @ -Abraham Lincoln
The kindest hearts have felt the most pains.
Do what is right, not what is easy. @ -Roy T. Bennett
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. @ -Marilyn vos Savant
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. @ -Socrates
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. @ -Lao Tzu
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. @ -Rumi
Listen to many, speak to a few. @ -William Shakespeare
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
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. @ -John Landis Mason
Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. @ -George Bernard Shaw
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
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. @ -Mark Twain
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. @ -Martin Luther King
What you seek is seeking you. @ -Rumi
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. @ -Voltaire
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. @ -Lao Tzu
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. @ -Voltaire
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Have more than you show, speak less than you know. @ -William Shakespeare
Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. @ -Drake
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection. @ -Drake
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
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
Time is a created thing. To say I don't have time, is like saying, I don't want to. @ -Lao Tzu
Move too fast through life and you might miss the whole point of it.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. @ -Gail Sheehy
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. @ -Carl Jung
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. @ -Lee Brown
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
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. @ -Albert Einstein
You do not find the happy life. You make it. @ -Camilla Eyring Kimball
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. @ -Stephen Covey
Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant. @ -Deepak Chopra
The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. @ -Irene C. Kassorla
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 must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. @ -Joseph Campbell
I'm wise because I've been foolish.
Let the past make you better, not bitter.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. @ -Paulo Coelho
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. @ -W.M. Lewis
Don't try to understand everything, because sometimes it isn't meant to be understood, but to be accepted.
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
Give out what you want to get back.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. @ -Malcolm Forbes
Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack. @ -Benjamin Franklin
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
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside. @ -Naval Ravikant
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. @ -Aristotle
The prettiest eyes have cried the most.
How you spend every day is how you spend your life.
Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it.
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
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. @ -Thomas Paine
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
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
Speak only if it improves upon the silence. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
The past has no power over the present moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
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
Maturity comes with experience, not age.
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
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. @ -Warren Buffett
Intuition can make the decision for you.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. @ -George Bernard Shaw
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. @ -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
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. @ -Paulo Coelho
Don't go through life, grow through life. @ -Eric Butterworth
Time heals what reason cannot. @ -Seneca
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
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
With wisdom, comes the desire for simplicity.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. @ -Ken Hudgins
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
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. @ -William Shakespeare
Just do your best and to hell the rest.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. @ -Maya Angelou
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. @ -Stedman Graham
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. @ -Emerson
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. @ -Karen Casey
To find yourself, think for yourself. @ -Socrates
It's ok to ask others for advice—sometimes it's great to have a fresh pair of eyes—but remember: it's you who must live with your decisions.
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. @ -Mark Twain
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
We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. @ -Les Brown
The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light. @ -S. Ajna
Think before you speak. Read before you think. @ -Fran Lebowitz
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. @ -Pablo Picasso
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
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. @ -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hard lessons are useful in life to make better decisions going forward.
When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps. @ -John Lennon
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. @ -Benjamin Franklin
We are made wise not from the recollection of our past, but by responsibility for our future. @ -George Bernard Shaw
The journey matters more than the destination. @ -Tony Fahkry
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. @ -Plato
If you've never eaten while crying you don't know what life tastes like. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. @ -George S. Patton
Those who laugh often never grow old. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. @ -Voltaire
Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak. @ -William Shakespeare
Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none. @ -Franz Kafka
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
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. @ -Benjamin Franklin
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
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. @ -Benjamin Franklin
The experience of life offers you what flows from you.
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
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Close both eyes to see with the other eye. @ -Rumi
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. @ -Confucius
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. @ -Benjamin Franklin
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. @ -Thomas Paine
It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. @ -Sara E. Anderson
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
The wise speak softly, for their words do not attempt to convince. @ -James Pierce
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. -John A. Shedd
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. @ -Albert Einstein
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
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming. @ -Rumi
We should all start to live before we get too old. @ -Marilyn Monroe
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
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. @ -Jess C. Scott
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. @ -Spanish proverb
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
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. @ -Georg Hegel
Silence is true wisdom's best reply. @ -Euripides
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. @ -Helen Keller
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
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
It is wiser to find out than suppose. @ -Mark Twain
Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding. @ -Lucy Maud Montgomery
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. @ -Truman Capote
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. @ -Ram Dass
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. @ -Albert Einstein
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
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. @ -Thomas Paine
The eyes are the window to your soul. @ -William Shakespeare
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. @ -Douglas MacArthur
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
You will never stumble onto success, you will work for it.
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
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. @ -Mason Cooley
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. @ -Arthur Schopenhauer
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. @ -Benjamin Franklin
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
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. @ -Toni Morrison
In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. @ -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My life is perfect even when it's not. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. @ -Benjamin Franklin
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. @ -Voltaire
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. @ -Elbert Hubbard
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. @ -Langston Hughes
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
Wisdom comes only through suffering. @ -Aeschylus
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. @ -George Bernard Shaw
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. @ -Helen Keller
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. @ -William Feather
There is no path to peace; peace is the path. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
I exist as I am, that is enough. @ -Walt Whitman
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
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. @ -Toni Morrison
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. @ -Bertrand Russell
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. @ -William Shakespeare
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. @ -Michel de Montaigne
I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. @ -Jeffrey McDaniel
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. @ -Samuel Johnson
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. @ -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. @ -William Faulkner
If something surprises you again and again, stop being surprised.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Take time like the river that never grows stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry, no rush. @ -Rumi
I'm not afraid... I was BORN for this. @ -Joan of Arc
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. @ -Osho
Life is but an endless series of experiments. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Dare to think for yourself. @ -Voltaire
Understanding is the key to getting over disappointment.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. @ -Isaac Asimov
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
Sorrow is an inextricable part of life. Whoever lives experiences it. There's no escape. If we understand this then we would stop bewailing every misfortune that occurs. Life is a bargain. You want joy but you can't have it without suffering. You must accept the whole package. @ -The Ancient Sage
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
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. @ -Toni Morrison
Life needs both: thorns and roses, days and nights, happiness/unhappiness, birth/death. Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death; something that is beyond darkness and beyond light; something that is beyond happiness, beyond unhappiness. @ -Osho
I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own. @ -Nikola Tesla
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. @ -Victor Hugo
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. @ -Oscar Wilde
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. @ -Voltaire
The more a man knows, the less he talks. @ -Voltaire
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. @ -Jonathan Swift
Wise is he who collects the wisdom of others. @ -Juan Guerra Caceras
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. @ -J.K. Rowling
Wherever you are, it's where you need to be.
I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. @ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. @ -Alan Cohen
The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. @ -Thomas Carlyle
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Success is an iceberg.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. @ -Albert Einstein
Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending. @ -Jim Henson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. @ -Thomas Jefferson
Nothing happens unless first a dream. @ -Carl Sandburg
Patience is the companion of wisdom. @ -Augustine of Hippo
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
Common sense is not so common. @ -Voltaire
I rebel; therefore I exist. @ -Albert Camus
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. @ -Rumi
Love is too young to know what conscience is. @ -William Shakespeare
You know who you are, but know not who you could be. @ -William Shakespeare
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. @ -Roberto Assagioli
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. @ -Roger Babson
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. @ -Rumi
The doors of wisdom are never shut. @ -Benjamin Franklin
A closed mouth catches no flies. @ -Miguel de Cervantes
We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin. @ -Nikola Tesla
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. @ -Aristotle
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. @ -Wallace Stegner
Turn your wounds into wisdom. @ -Oprah Winfrey
If you judge, investigate. @ -Seneca
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on. @ -Voltaire
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
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. @ -William Shakespeare
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart. @ -Pearl S. Buck
Never confuse motion with action. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Everything popular is wrong. @ -Oscar Wilde
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. @ -James Allen
If you think you know the answer, you're far from wise. @ -Trent Hamm
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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. @ -Mark Twain
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. @ -Epictetus
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. @ -Alain de Botton
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. @ -Victor Hugo
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. @ -George Santayana
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. @ -Niels Bohr
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
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. @ -Mark Twain
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. @ -Vernon Cooper
There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself. @ -John MacEnulty
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. @ -George Herbert
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. @ -Anthony Bourdain
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. @ -Voltaire
An infinite reservoir of cosmic wisdom resides in the depths of contemplation. @ -Roy Gillett
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. @ -Rumi
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. @ -Euripides
Nature does nothing uselessly. @ -Aristotle
The time is always right to do what is right. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. @ -Colette
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
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. @ -M. Scott Peck
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. @ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Doubt is the origin of wisdom. @ -Augustine of Hippo
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headed. @ -Lao Tzu
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. @ -Sir Boyle Roche
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. @ -Leo Tolstoy
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. @ -Abraham Lincoln
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. @ -Alexandre Dumas
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
Don't settle, and don't struggle. @ -Naval Ravikant
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. @ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. @ -Konrad Adenauer
Observe all men, thyself most. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Know thyself. @ -Socrates
I am free and that is why I am lost. @ -Franz Kafka
The unexamined life is not worth living. @ -Socrates
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art. @ -Toni Morrison
Angry people are not always wise. @ -Jane Austen
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. @ -Bertolt Brecht
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility. @ -Albert Einstein
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway. @ -Guy Laliberte
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
Yesterday's solutions may not work tomorrow.
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. @ -Voltaire
What makes night within us may leave stars. @ -Victor Hugo
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Rejecting the moment creates friction. Friction creates confusion. Confusion creates sadness. @ -Maxime Lagacé
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. @ -Voltaire
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. @ -William Shakespeare
True beauty consists of purity of heart. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself. @ -Rumi
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. @ -Eric Hoffer
Wisdom begins in wonder. @ -Socrates
All of life is a near-death experience. @ -Alan Harris
I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person. @ -Franz Kafka
Doubt grows with knowledge. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. @ -Marilyn Monroe
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. @ -Nikolai Gogol
To do two things at once is to do neither. @ -Publilius Syrus
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. @ -William F. Scolavino
To thine own self be true. @ -William Shakespeare
I'm not young enough to know everything. @ -J.M. Barrie
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is inneed of help. @ -Albert Schweitzer
‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. @ -Voltaire
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. @ -Isaac Asimov
To grow up is a disappointment, to make the best of it is maturity.
The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. @ -Dejan Stojanovic
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. @ -F. Scott Fitzgerald
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. @ -Bertrand Russell
Conscience doth make cowards of us all. @ -William Shakespeare
An overflow of good converts to bad. @ -William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. @ -William Shakespeare
Memory is the old, and it is afraid of the new. @ -Osho
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. @ -William Faulkner
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite. @ -George Bernard Shaw
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. @ -Franz Kafka
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Never laugh at live dragons. @ -J.R.R. Tolkien
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. @ -Benjamin Franklin
On average, the deeper people's knowledge of a topic, the more calmly they talk about it. @ -Paul Graham
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. @ -Lao Tzu
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Passion is born deaf and dumb. @ -Honoré de Balzac
Imagination… Is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness. @ -Melowpark College
The highest result of education is tolerance. @ -Helen Keller
Life is not discovery of fate; it is continuous creation of future, through choices of thoughts, feelings and actions in the present. @ -Sanjay Sahay
Life is a journey, not a destination. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. @ -John Lennon
May you live every day of your life. @ -Jonathan Swift
Those who do not weep, do not see. @ -Victor Hugo
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. @ -Voltaire
Both heaven and hell are within us. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If it is not necessary to decide, it is necessary not to decide. @ -Lord Acton
We are always the same age inside. @ -Gertrude Stein
Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty. @ -Kilian Jornet
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. @ -Benjamin Franklin
In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being @ -Nikola Tesla
The more you know, the less sure you are. @ -Voltaire
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. @ -Benjamin Franklin
