wisdom

"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"

"I cry, but not for myself. There’s too much sadness in this world to waste a moment with self-pity, when making others smile will also make me smile."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"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."

"Suffering teaches joy."

"Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others."

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

"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."

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."

"He rose like heroes, and I rose like rows of red roses. Love grows wherever you plant it, so I try to farm it wherever I go."

"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?"

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have."

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart."

"Please, touch me, I pray."

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."