All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom
“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.”
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“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.”
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“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.” Translation by Sharon Lebell”
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“There are no ordinary moments.”
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
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“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
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“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
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“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world …”
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“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
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“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this — and much more than this is true — why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us–why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.”
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“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.”
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“REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESSBefore you were born,And were still too tiny forThe human eye to see,You won the race for lifeFrom among 250 million competitors.And yet,How fast you have forgottenYour strength,When your very existenceIs proof of your greatness.You were born a winner,A warrior,One who defied the oddsBy surviving the most gruesomeBattle of them all.And now that you are a giant,Why do you even doubt victoryAgainst smaller numbers,And wider margins?The only walls that exist,Are those you have placed in your mind.And whatever obstacles you conceive,Exist only because you have forgottenWhat you have alreadyAchieved.Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
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