wisdom

"Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty."

"We all have scars, Mia; they are supposed to make you stronger, not paralyze you.” ~Cole"

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."

"Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows."

"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats."

"…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss."

"a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

"One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about."

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true"

"Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"With any new business deal, don’t think about how much you can afford to get—think about how much you can afford to give. A spirit of giving will allow you to get."

"The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you."

"You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better."

"I’ll wear a maze on a necklace, dangling over my chest, because if you want to get at my heart, you have to be ready to lose yourself."

"Silence does not always mark wisdom."

"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."