wisdom

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!"

"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside."

"May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you..."

"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."

"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."

"When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost."

"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 fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom."

"For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."

"Routine feeds the illusion of safety..."

"A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it."

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."

"The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it."

"And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

"This is me, Ana. All of me...and I'm all yours. What do I have to do to make you realize that? To make you see that I want you any way I can get you. That I love you."

"The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good."

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."