"Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control."
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"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."
"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."
"To be angry is easy, but to forgive is hard. That's why to love is easy, and to love is hard. I try to be so hard that I'm soft, like a liquid rock, fluid and forgiving, but unmovable in my resolve."
"Philosophers have often held disputeAs to the seat of thought in man and bruteFor that the power of thought attends the latterMy friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,And spite of dogmas current in all ages,One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)"
"you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry"
"Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment."
"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
"Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse."
"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!"
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
"Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better."
"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
"May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire."
"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."
"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."