wisdom

"Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world."

"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?"

"Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions."

"Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods."

"It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful."

"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."

"Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace."

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."

"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."

"With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying."

"A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires."

"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."