Wisdom

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A child may not know how to feed itself or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger.

Short Story




Beauty unaware of itself is the most beautiful




A pebble drops into your pond of life. The pebble creates ripples of stress and confusion. The ripples turn into waves and get larger and larger as they work to the edges of your being. We learn to let them go, to honor them, and allow them to leave.




Sometimes the deepest scars are the ones that you can't see.

Rowan Meade, filmaker




Laughter is strong medicine, maybe the most powerful medicine of all. It takes great people and remarkable individuals to be able to laugh at themselves. Especially in times of terrible adversity - but those who do usually manage to survive.

Pedro Cue




It is better for a person to take chance from life than to live in that gray twilight and know not victory nor defeat.

Karel Soucek




You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham




If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. *correction* He who fights with beasts should look in to that he himself doesn't become a beast. If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche




People don't want what is right in front of them. They want the dream, what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV Show (!)




Some people see the glass as half full, others see it as half empty. The way I see it: It doesn't really matter as long as you don't spill it.

Rachel Silberberg




Speak softly, and carry a big stick!

Theodore Roosevelt




It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire




Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.




"There are two things to aim for in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."




He that sips of many arts, drinks of none.

Fuller




A good quote is worth a thousand words.

Jonathan King




the Key to valuing differences is to realize that all people see the world, not how it is, but as they are.




Better to die on your feet than live on your knees

Battle cry from Spanish civil war




We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we could only fly embracing each other.




In victory you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it.

Napoleon Bonaparte




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