wisdom

"The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

"And someone, somewhere, was having an even worse time of it than me. I tried to keep that in mind. No matter how crappy your life, someone will probably beat you in the my-life-is-crap category. Not that I don't let myself whine a little now and then, but sometimes it's good to keep your misery in perspective"

"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."

"We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise."

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature."

"But that's how memory works,"Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission."And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped."

"If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first."

"انني احترم حق كل انسان في ان يؤمن بما يعتقد انه الصواب، وانتظر أن أعامل بالمثل."

"The going rate for love is going away. And the more you go away, the more expensive it gets."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."

"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace."

"Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."