“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
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Wisdom quotes
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”