All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom
“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”
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“She wished she could visit Mariam’s grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn’t matter. Mariam is never very far…. Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”
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“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
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“All those years I thought that it was power that brought responsibility. It’s not. I was wrong.It’s responsibility that brings power. It’s knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage.”
“What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?”
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“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
“That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.”
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“The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.”
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“For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.”
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“Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.”
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“The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”
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“Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.”
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