Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (8)
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Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
- Lao Tzu

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha

How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Questions are a microscope peering into the depths of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
- Lao Tzu

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

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