wisdom

"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

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

"Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none."

"Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish."

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"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."

"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."

"You have to be ill if you want to get better."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!"

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

"Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!"

"The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble."

"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"

"A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for."

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."