Wisdom

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All books are alike in that they are truer than if they had happened, and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway




You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Wayne Gretzky




It's funny how when were children, all we want to do is grow up, but when we're older and grown up, we wish the world was as simple and innocent as it were when we were a child.

Tim Hussar




Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin




There are three types of women:

1. The ones that go unnoticed.
2. The ones that catch the eye but are soon forgotten.
3. The ones that you notice, but you don't know why, almost mysterious in a way, and those are the ones you never forget, never.




Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. kennedy




If today was your last day, who would you call, what would you say, and what are you waiting for?

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul




The heart has its own reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal




Profainty is a feeble mind trying to express itself forcefully.

Thomas Andy Dale




Education is the progressive realization of one's own ignorance.




If the world is cold make it your business to build fires.

Horace Traubel




China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep. For when he wakes he will move the world.

Napoleon




Wars aren't fought in the trenches rather in the mind, body, and soul. For life is the battle field, society and emotions are the adversaries, and victory is determined by our reactions to those very forces

Curtis Reeves




When you look in a mirror, what do you see? The person you once were, or the person you will soon become?




Fight war not wars. Destroy power not people.




Poverty is the worst form of violence

Mahatma Gandhi




An anthropoligist once asked a Hopi why so many of his people's songs were about rain. The Hopi replied that it was because water is so scarce. Is that why so many of our songs are about love?




Without struggle, there can be no growth.

Chinese proverb




I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.

Benjamin Franklin




Only the educated are free.

Plato




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