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Words of Wisdom - Quotes of Wisdom

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

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Words of Wisdom

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche


There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tsu

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Quotes of Wisdom

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors.
History is written by the survivors.
- Max Lerner

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

Words of Wisdom Quotes

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas Edison

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom Quotes about Life

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Great Quotes of Timeless Wisdom

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.
- Anonymous

Comparisons are odious.
- Old English Saying

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
– St Francis of Assisi

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Stephenie Meyer


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