wisdom

"Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers."

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know."

"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."

"But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here."

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

"There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion."

"Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired."

"Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why."

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

"I used to think how lucky she was to have me, but now I realize that’s backwards. A spirit of gratitude yields patience, love, and forgiveness."

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

"...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see."

"What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation."

"Prophesies are dark and don’t need a flashlight to illuminate. I’m a bring my own lighthouse kind of lover."

"Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn’t exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing."