"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."
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"I'm not young enough to know everything."
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."
"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect."
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
"The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
"Poor is the man who thinks money makes him wealthy. Love is the true treasure, and the more you give away, the more you have."
"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."
"At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become."
"Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."
"Suffering teaches joy."
"Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself."
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
"Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger."
"what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it."
"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."