wisdom

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

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential."

"The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true."

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"you have to love something before you can hate it."

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

"Habit rules the unreflecting herd."

"They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed."

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

"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?"

"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."

"Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray."

"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."

"If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely."

"there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it ."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men."

"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."

"Veganism is not a "sacrifice."It is a joy."

"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation."