Wisdom
Quotes
We
should Forgive Our Enemies
“If
opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
―
Milton Berle
“I
used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The
worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
―
Robin Williams
“We
should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
―
Heinrich Heine
“Take
it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before,
bugs in amber.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut
“Far
better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows
neither victory nor defeat.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
“There
are no ordinary moments.”
―
Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“May
Light always surround you;
Hope
kindle and rebound you.
May
your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your
Heart embrace Feeling.
May
Wounds become Wisdom;
Every
Kindness a Prism.
May
Laughter infect you;
Your
Passion resurrect you.
May
Goodness inspire
your
Deepest Desires.
Through
all that you Reach For,
May
your arms Never Tire.”
― D.
Simone
“Don’t
only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and
knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
―
Ludwig van Beethoven
“But
what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.
Gilan
threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so
lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course
you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things
up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit
it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”
―
John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom
“You
will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
―
Siddhārtha Gautama
“It
is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before
the years can make it wise.”
―
Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
“A
great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices.”
―
William James
“You
cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
―
Galileo
“You
cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward
what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than
allowing it to master you.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Education
is no substitute for intelligence.”
―
Frank Herbert
“V-Day…if
you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your
loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all
artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“For
everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left
wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is
fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is
forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving
there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection
there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of
honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping.
We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there
is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of
people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings
every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one
wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of
people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their
ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“As
a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
―
Leonardo da Vinci
“Never
forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
―
Cornel West
“I
can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
―
Isaac Newton
