wisdom

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."

"I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see."

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"

"The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature."

"There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good."And one says, "This is new, and therefore better."

"Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"- which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET."- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."

"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family."

"إلى البكائين على مافات٫ المتحيّرين وراء تحقيق المعجزات٫ الدائرين حول محور من أنفسهم يصارعون المنى وتصارعهم دون الانتهاء إلى قرار.. ألى هؤلاء نوجّه كلمة ( وليم جيمس ) : "ان بيننا وبين الله رابطة لاتنفصم٫ فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه-سبحانه وتعالى- تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها"

"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."

"You can use your mouth to speak the words I love you, or you can use your mouth to kiss me and transport love from your mind to my heart."

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

"the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person."

"I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?"

"Trying to hide my feelings to avoid getting hurt just ends up hurting not only myself—but also the person I am hiding my feelings from."