wisdom

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."Translation by Sharon Lebell"

"Prophesies are dark and don’t need a flashlight to illuminate. I’m a bring my own lighthouse kind of lover."

"It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise."

"Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless."

"You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"It takes a very long time to become young."

"It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?"

"To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."

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

"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."

"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."

"When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass."

"But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place."

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."

"و ميز كلامك قبل الكلام… فإن لكل كلام جوابفرب كلام يمص الحشى … و فيه من المزح ما يستطاب"

"A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see"

"Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway."

"Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system."