#wisdom

"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."

"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."

"Hope for the Heartbroken A broken heartremains in piecesbut learns to love againwith every fragment."

"The Albanian Art of Subtle Seduction [10w] "You have an amazing mind now show me your tits."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses."

"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."

"Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead."

"Visual Pun [10w] Example of visual pun:cloud shaped like a banana peel."

"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."

"The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires."

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

"In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with."

"You Can't Win [10w] Every bitch is a witch;every wife brings you strife."

"Lubbock, Texas Haiku Oil wells, Hub of the Plains.Stinks like an armpit."

"Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!"

"I only know that I know nothing"

"Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control."

"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."