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Quotes about Wisdom
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Anger burns, resentment smolders.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
That which is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah;
the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Questions are a microscope peering into the depths of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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