All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“But that’s how memory works,” Bitterblue said quietly. “Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.” And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.”

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”

“Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.”

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”

“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”

“It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ”

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”

“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.”

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”

“Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe – these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.”

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

“When in doubt, choose to live.”