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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
Longer Version:
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your Creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
No matter what life throws at you, don't become jaded or cynical. Love is worth the risk.
Better foster wisdom, before you destroy the world with your arrogance of intelligence.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Experience and travel. These are an education in themselves.
You will curse your blessings by not being grateful for what is already yours.
Hate is a lack of imagination.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it -- thou art a fool.
Only the steps of a one-step long journey can be taken all at the same time.
We know way too many words of wisdom, but perform all too few actions of wisdom.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first.
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
May you never become so cynical that you let a star fall without its wish.
The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.
The same path walked by different souls will lead to different places.
When you're watching somebody else's yard, a lot of trash collects in yours.
Joy goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.
What you feed your mind determines your appetite.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Longer Version:
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
The truest sayings are paradoxical.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Longer Version:
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
The years teach much which the days never know.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
The wisest have the most authority.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
