Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another. - Edmund Burke
Be a good person but do not waste time proving it.
- 5 by 5 rule: if it is not gonna matter in five years, don t spend more than 5 minutes being upset by it. - Unknown
A second chance does not mean anything if you have not learned from your mistake.
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don t think that it is true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world. - Unknown
Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned. - Frank Sonnenberg
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you once made. If you want different results, make different choices.
If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself. - Becca Lee
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. - Buddha
If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others, you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself. - Nikita Gill
Always keep a piece of you for you. That s not selfish, that s survival.
Without rain nothing grows. Learn to embrace the storms of your life.
Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away, with your head held high, is dignity.
Don t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent & kick them out.
Wisdom doesn t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Rudeness is a weak person s imitation of strength.
Self-confidence is the best outfit. Rock it & own it.
Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond. - Buddha
A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of talking about each other.
A ship in a harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for.
You have been assigned this mountain to show others that it can be moved.
Wisdom is the ability to learn from change.
Maybe it won t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
We are not stuck in the ruts of destiny. We have the power to break free, clear our vision & see a new life for ourselves. - Tony Clark
Wise people are not always silent, but they know when to be.
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. - Ezra Taft Benson
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. - Henry Rollins
It is not what you look at that matters. It is what you see. - Henry David Thoreau
Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
Less perfection. More authenticity.
If you are doing your best you won t have time to worry about failure. - Robert S. Hillyer
A tiger doesn t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you have been. - Evan Esar
A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren t we like that wise old bird? - Charles M. Schulz
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild
Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. - George Bernhard Shaw
One day, you ll be just a memory to some people. Do your best to be a good one.
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow
Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective. - Doe Zantamata
You have to stop watering dead plants.
You know the truth by the way it feels.
When you are up, your friends know who you are. When you are down, you know who your friends are.
The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are. - Nelson Mandela
Remember, you can t reach what s in front of you until you let go of what is behind you. - Chinna Sharma
When a flower doesn t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. - Alexander Den Heijer
Healing doesn t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.
If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still look beautiful?
The caterpillar has to suffer silently in a cocoon to become a butterfly. Change is painful in the beginning but worth it in the end. - Jaykaran Sagar
Ask yourself what is really important & then have the wisdom & courage to build your life around your answer.
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. - Jerry Gillies
If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.
No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything.
Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Be brave. Even if you are not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein
The flower doesn t dream of the bee. It blossoms, and the bee comes. - Mark Nepo
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Improvement begins with I.
Spirit sometimes takes us into troubled waters. Not to drown us, but to teach us.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies how very different our ideals of beauty would be.
Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.
Stand for what is right, even if that means standing alone.
You only live once? Wrong. You live every day. You only die once.
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes
Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her. - Lao Tzu
There will always be someone who cannot see your worth. Do not let it be you.
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. - Lao Tzu
Give me the wisdom to know what to do, and the courage to do it.
Words are free. It is how you use them that may cost you.
Not every day is good, but there is something good in every day.
Get out of your own way.
Never be defined by your past. It was a lesson, not a life sentence.
Wisdom is the reward of experience and should be shared.
Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to fix anything, or to do anything in particular, but just to let us feel that we are cared for & supported.
The same boiling water that softens potatoes hardens eggs. It is all about creating ourselves, not our circumstances.
You must unlearn what you have learned. You will know good from bad when you are calm, at peace, passive. - Master Yoda
Courage does not mean you do not get afraid. Courage means you do not let fear stop you. - Buddha
Be kind. Work hard. Stay humble. Smile often. Stay loyal. Keep honest. Travel when possible. Never stop learning. Be thankful. Always. Love.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Francis Bacon
Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. - Mo Willems
At the center of your being you have the answer; you are & you know what you want. - Lao Tzu
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine
Happiness will never come to those who do not appreciate what they already have.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. - Socrates
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers wisdom faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
Complaining not only ruins everybody else s day, it ruins the complainer s day too. The more we complain, the unhappier we get. - Dennis Prager
Be kinder to yourself. And then, let your kindness flood the world. - Pema Chodron
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. - Weil
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey
You only lose what you cling to. - Buddha
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forgive is the happiest.