wisdom

"La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar."

"Cheap booze is a false economy."

"The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest."

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."

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

"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."

"As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly."

"A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use."

"re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.[From the preface to Leaves Grass]"

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

"Suffering teaches joy."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"

"Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone."

"The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles."

"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."

"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."

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

"Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is."