All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“The main thing about ghosts – most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don’t use it,’ Nico said with a shrug, ‘you’re halfway to Asphodel already.’…He hated when his own advice applied to himself.”

“Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers’ dreams”

“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”

“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.”

“A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies”

“A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it’s been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute”

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“Every time we start thinking we’re the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, ‘I’m sorry. What’d you say your name was again?”

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”

“You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can’t.”

“Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.”

“The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)”

“Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.”

“Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils.”

“The possibility of the dream gives strength.”