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ca9dea3 In Antartica, The Wright and half a dozen other valleys in the Central Transantarctic Mountains are collectively referred to as the dry valleys. It has not rained here in two million years. No animal abides, no plant grows. A persistent, sometimes ferocious wind has stripped the country to stone and gravel, to streamers of sand. The huge valleys stand stark as empty fjords. You look in vain for any conventional sign of human history- the vestige of a protective wall, a bit of charcoal, a discarded arrowhead. Nothing. There is no history, until you bore into the layers of rock or until the balls of your fingertips run the rim of a partially exposed fossil. At the height of the austral summer, in December, you smell nothing but the sunbeaten stone. In a silence dense as water, your eye picks up no movement but the sloughing of sand, seeking its angle of repose. On the flight in from New Zealand it had occurred to me, from what I had read and heard, that Antarctica retained Earth's primitive link, however tenuous, with space, with the void that stretched out to Jupiter and Uranus. At the seabird rookeries of the Canadian Arctic or on the grasslands of the Serengeti, you can feel the vitality of the original creation; in the dry valleys you sense sharply what came before. The Archeozoic is like fresh spoor here. nature wisdom Barry Lopez
33f88eb If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep. wisdom opponent tactics enemy strategy Sherwood Smith
a514c2b Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. virtue man mind existence morality reason life philosophy truth wisdom john-galt pursuit-of-happiness objectivism rational think consciousness thinking morals values Ayn Rand
4c555ad Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A. virtue man mind good morality reason life philosophy truth wisdom john-galt pursuit-of-happiness objectivism rational think thinking morals values evil Ayn Rand
e3afcf1 -just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh. wisdom mature older brain bones maturity flesh mountains teens V.C. Andrews
57e1f60 No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. wisdom sully words-to-live-by Richard Russo
66c618b It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed. wisdom gwydion judgment Lloyd Alexander
2567a3c It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen to return, I would ever wonder whether my choice was made through wisdom or following the wishes of my own heart. I see this is as it must be, and the destiny laid upon me. I am content to die here. fate love wisdom folly Lloyd Alexander
4c7e5e0 We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. living life-lessons wisdom purposeful-living purpose Michael Cunningham
8bde9f7 No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods. cslewis life love wisdom control rights Michael D. O'Brien
3ab9cd8 yjb 'n ykwn lnsn Hkym b`tdl wlkn lys mfrT lHkm@ Ht~ l y`rf qdrh msbq wisdom Michael Crichton
d44e62a "I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the world- pulsing the way our heartbeat drums under our own skin. And I believe that there's a connectedness between everything that gives some people a deep and abiding affinity to a certain kind of place or creature." "Like totems?" "Maybe. Or maybe something even more personal- something that's impossible to articulate with the vocabulary we have at the moment." "This is too weird." Annie shrugged. "What can I say? It's getting late, the stars are out. Once the sun sets, I tend to embrace whatever wild spirits are running around in the darkness, talking away to each other. I leave the logic of streets and pavement and cars and tall buildings behind and buy into the old magics that they're whispering about. Sometimes those little mysteries and bits of wisdom stick to the bones of my head and I carry them right out into the sunlight again. They're like Jack's stories, true and not true, all at the same time. They don't exactly shape my life, but they certainly colour it." She glanced at him, "I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is" magic wisdom wild-spirits mysteries Charles de Lint
2247d92 A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive - and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down. women strength life wisdom powerful-women difficult-decisions women-in-power forgiveness power Malcolm Gladwell
e81cb27 The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness. wisdom cunning Frank Herbert
67c9bf9 It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember. wisdom memorable Henry David Thoreau
0c9bad6 To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. freedom spirituality love wisdom christian justice Cornel West
4e97412 Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. wisdom Hermann Hesse
54a3539 In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- , , Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. . The wonderful power which Washington's Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed to of insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed from 's pen to 's tongue. . { } laughter sympathy emotion poetry morality reason imagination friendship humor love truth wisdom inspirational lecture henry-d-thoreau henry-thoreau mirth orator pathos ralph-e-emerson ralph-emerson ralph-waldo-emerson some-mistakes-of-moses henry-david-thoreau ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll emerson memorable praise boston art thoreau simplicity paine thomas-paine tears respect logic honor power speech voice Moncure Daniel Conway
76ab5d2 Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open. life-lessons wisdom Margaret George
b7e2f1c But that (physical attractiveness), as the late great Irish poet and philosopher of beauty John O'Donohue helpfully distinguished, is glamour. I've taken his definition as my own, for naming beauty in all its nuance in the moment-to-moment reality of our days: nature beauty life wisdom on-being enoughness art-of-living beautiful Krista Tippett
f7574e4 "...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)" wisdom excess Jack Kerouac
a8de04d Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. wisdom José Saramago
66df5db Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability. joy faith god life love wisdom point-of-view stable view stability objectivity see christian peace Elizabeth George
d67352e "With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators." men compassion wisdom plants weeds Victor Hugo
58f1157 Vidish', ia togda vse se- bia sprashival: zachem ia tak glup, chto esli drugie glu- py i koli ia znaiu uzh naverno, chto oni glupy, to sam ne khochu byt' umnee? Potom ia uznal, Sonia, chto esli zhdat', poka vse stanut umnymi, to slishkom uzh dol- go budet... Potom ia eshche uznal, chto nikogda etogo i ne budet, chto ne peremeniatsia liudi, i ne peredelat' ikh nikomu, i truda ne stoit tratit'! Da, eto tak! Eto ikh zakon... Zakon, Sonia! Eto tak!.. I ia teper' znaiu, Sonia, chto kto krepok i silen umom i dukhom, tot nad nimi i vlastelin! Kto mnogo posmeet, tot u nikh i prav. Kto na bol'shee mozhet pliunut', tot u nikh i zakonodatel', a kto bol'she vsekh mozhet posmet', tot i vsekh pravee! Tak dosele velos' i tak vsegda budet! Tol'ko slepoi ne razgliadit! truth wisdom loathe society self-deception Fyodor Dostoyevsky
607a63a But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge. fiction wisdom frederick-douglass marcel remains-to-be-seen brandi-bates urban los-angeles knowledge Brandi L. Bates
d2cce05 The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ. wisdom humility thinking John Piper
b65d3cb You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is. motivation wisdom great-authors great-books metaphysics passages-malibu encouragement Chris Prentiss
07193a2 Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia - not covered in dust but evolving all the way- so that each new generation has something to choose from when it is time to ask the big questions in life. Where did we come from? Why do bad things happen to good people? Who is my neighbor? Where do we go from here? No one should have to start from scratch with questions like these. Overhearing the answers of the world's great religions can help anyone improve his or her own answers. Without a religion, these questions often do not get asked. wisdom questions-in-life religion-spirituality barbara brown taylor
2bf4ceb Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself. inspiration wisdom imitation meditation Jon Kabat-Zinn
0c7599b Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned. wisdom blue jordan kingsley mimi schuyler σοφία venator force Melissa de la Cruz
38a71bf He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism. spirituality wisdom healing knowledge Isabel Allende
498f418 In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent. intelligence wisdom knowledge Neal Stephenson
efe952f But if they had learnt anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. wisdom Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
6f0983f One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad. good life wisdom experience Joseph Conrad
82826da ...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't. wisdom George Eliot
350052f . . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice. wisdom James Lee Burke
ff691bf I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. wisdom maturity Geraldine Brooks
422b297 "When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit." struggle philosophy wisdom chris-prentiss-quotes passages-malibu philosophy-of-life quotes Chris Prentiss
c2f81de poeqnkminkMnntgooltausmraapkhluanqnkde, qnknyngtruuvdhvoekaartoempiismrecgooltaurpsqnktdai. wisdom successful Brian Tracy
35f8d51 I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. sobriety freedom life philosophy wisdom alcoholism-cure amazon bookstore end-the-cycle great-authors great-books kindle new-book nook cure-addiction author drug-addiction alcohol-addiction-treatment drug-addiction-treatment addiction-free alcohol-addiction addiction-and-recovery passages-ventura passages-malibu addiction-cure alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse sober book self-help Chris Prentiss
e6b041f True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield. god truth wisdom willingness elizabeth-george yield Elizabeth George
a489770 You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn wisdom star-wars Jude Watson
0fe1970 We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can't force him to actually do the work. You've got to be willing to work on your issues. You've got to be willing to face hard truths and fight to get better. that takes courage and force of will. (Anita) wisdom therapy Laurell K. Hamilton
351ff9a They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures. inspiration wisdom satire Henry David Thoreau
aefe25c [T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two. wisdom John Barth
1193782 "Surely," he said, "the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. They know the ways of the sun and the wind, the lightning's fiery feet, the frost that shattereth, the rain that shroudeth, the snow that putteth about their nakedness a softer coverlet than fine lawn." nature life wisdom patience E.R. Eddison
bbda67b "A man feared that he might find an assassin; philosophy wisdom victim crane wise Stephen Crane
42b75ac You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to suffer, and to sacrifice - and by degrees you noticed that the world had no need of your good deeds, or sacrifices, and such like; that life was not an heroic tale, with roles for heroes, and such like, but a comfortable bourgeois parlour, where one is perfectly satisfied with eating and drinking, coffee and knitted stockings, tarot readings and music on the radio. And he who wants otherwise and has the heroic and the beautiful inside him, the veneration of great poets or the adoration of saints inside him, he is a fool and a knight errant, a latter day Don Quixote? truth wisdom life-philosophy Hermann Hesse
31adbc9 "Pico Iyer: "And at some point, I thought, well, I've been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I've spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around--you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there's this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps." enlightenment travel nature spirit humanity faith beauty wisdom inner-landscape mindfulness peace mystery introspection Krista Tippett
acc0b85 Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope. wisdom sandman Peter Straub
a3527f3 Why do you and I have to hold these memories?' 'It gives us wisdom. wisdom Lois Lowry
620f518 Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with. wisdom integrative-perspective form knowledge Northrop Frye
b4e97a5 Ignorance is the parent of fear ... wisdom ignorance knowledge Herman Melville
5074daf Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind. learning wisdom frederick transferring-personality-traits parenthood Orson Scott Card
9fc96b7 It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. wisdom wise Orson Scott Card
6f75fe0 To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned. perfection wisdom barry-hughart li-kao master-li-and-number-ten-ox story-of-the-stone Barry Hughart
e442049 Let him who thinks war is a glorious, golden thing, who loves to roll forth stirring words of exhortation, invoking honour and praise and valour and love of country ... Let him but look at a little pile of sodden grey rags that cover half a skull and a shin-bone and what might have been its ribs, or at this skeleton lying on its side, resting half crouching as it fell, perfect that it is headless, and with the tattered clothing still draped round it; and let him realize how grand and glorious a thing it is to have distilled all youth and joy and life into a fetid heap of hideous putrescence! Who is there who has known and seen who can say that victory is worth the death of even one of these? war wisdom reflection introspection Wade Davis
20df577 That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started. wisdom knowledge Paul Auster
f84fec1 He bound the land together, and made of seven kingdoms, one. wisdom jaehaerys-targaryen ruler fire-and-blood kingdom George R.R. Martin
83d1843 It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it. wisdom Peter Sloterdijk
efadb14 You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really. science life wisdom survival Nick Hornby (Author)
d9441c6 Si se lo permitimos, los ninos pueden ensenarnos la salida. Hay una historia muy conocida de una madre que entra en la habitacion de su hijo recien nacido y se encuentra a su otro hijo, un nino de cuatro anos, asomado a la cuna. -Tienes que contarme como es el cielo y como es Dios -le implora el nino a su hermanito-. !Estoy empezando a olvidarme! spanish philosophy wisdom Brian L. Weiss
17200c6 "He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope." pain wisdom knowledge Lloyd Alexander
60a1f9a I think this is an alarming trend, Bethany, this whole 'passionate' thing. I'm guessing it started about four years ago, and it's driving me nuts. Let's be practical: Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about twenty million people foraging for roots and grubs. [...] My hunch is that there was some self-help bestseller a few years back that told people to follow their passion. What a sucky expression. I can usually tell when people have recently read that book because they're a bit distracted, and maybe they've done their hair a new way, and they're always trying to discuss the Big Picture of life and failing miserably. And then, when you bump into them again six months later, they appear haggard and bitter, the joy drained from them-and this means that the universe is back to normal and that they've given up searching for a passion they're doomed to never find. Want a chocolate? passion life wisdom Douglas Coupland
a3d8ba0 Atticus makes gigantic mistakes at times. But there are also times like this one when he makes of his life a poem and achieves an apotheosis of sorts, when his years manifest as wisdom and he spies a path forward that no one else sees until he points it out. And in this case that means not allowing swords to fall where they may. wisdom Kevin Hearne
3ac4ce8 Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England. wisdom G.K. Chesterton
158f1f1 Beginnings are such delicate times. wisdom Frank Herbert
56e2ece Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity. india life wisdom mumbay gossip Tahir Shah
fec0250 I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react. heart wisdom landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews impressions reactions V.C. Andrews
3965df7 Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory. wisdom Jim Butcher
2082645 What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all. wisdom grandmothers grandmother Alice Walker
070e74d Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of. wisdom Alexander McCall Smith
14ce203 A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom. wisdom proverbs wisdom-quotes Tom Stoppard
b39fd07 "Thabit ibn Qurra (AD 836-901, and also born in Harran), would have had little patience with loaded terms like "star idolatry" which seek to place the "paganism" of the Sabians on a lower level than the deadly, and often bigoted, narrow-minded and unscientific clerical monotheism of religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Thabit was well aware that, underlying the ancient Sabian practices misunderstood by these young religions as "star idolatry," were indeed exact sciences of great benefit to mankind, and thus he wrote: 'Who else have civilized the world, and built the cities, if not the nobles and kings of Paganism? Who else have set in order the harbors and rivers? And who else have taught the hidden wisdom? To whom else has the Deity revealed itself, given oracles, and told about the future, if not the famous men among the Pagans? The Pagans have made known all this. They have discovered the art of healing the soul; they have also made known the art of healing the body. They have filled the earth with settled forms of government, and with wisdom, which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable." science wisdom monotheism sabians paganism Graham Hancock
60d5c1e Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it. wrong feelings courage inspiration wisdom worth-it landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews right V.C. Andrews
cea1c33 It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep. truth wisdom keeping-promises landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews promises V.C. Andrews
f09666f For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. wisdom mabinogion labyrinth welsh Evangeline Walton
f85103b "There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on Earth." Eddie looked confused. "People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. "This is the greatest gift God can give you: To understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for." enlightenment death god life wisdom explanation meaning-of-life peace knowledge power life-after-death Mitch Albom
fc62633 The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. youth wisdom vitality Kim Stanley Robinson
7dbc0d3 The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm. reason wisdom revelation knowledge Watchman Nee
2aad605 ...alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging, reason philosophy wisdom inspirational knowledge-of-self values Lloyd Alexander
8bee181 Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it. wisdom overwhelm Kate Horsley
d1b2141 War always takes your life, sometimes not all at once. wisdom Kevin Hearne
4167e82 Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose. loneliness life-lessons wisdom Kate Horsley
23f296b Some folk learned the nature of God, that He was merciful, having spared a husband or some cattle, that He was strict, having meted out hard punishment for small sins, that He was attentive, having sent signs of the hunger beforehand, that He was just, having sent the hunger in the first place, or having sent the whales and the teeming reindeer in the end. Some folk learned that He was to be found in the world-in the richness of the grass and the pearly beauty of the Heavens, and others learned that He could not be found in the world, for the world is always wanting, and God is completion. world learning life wisdom Jane Smiley
6b48fcc Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young. truth wisdom Daphne du Maurier
d5017f2 Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time. doubt wisdom wu-wei timing Wu Wei
a96c445 One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it. wisdom teaching Hermann Hesse
1bef631 It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good youth love wisdom too-late old Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
e226413 Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble. wisdom H. Rider Haggard
d7bb373 You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea. wisdom conscious-awareness metaphysics passages-malibu spiritual-quotes Chris Prentiss
a5ca463 But the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn't matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or fifteen o'clock. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you can understand that -- then any time at all will be the right time for you. wisdom peter-s-beagle the-last-unicorn lessons-in-life love-life unicorn Peter S. Beagle
2a61589 It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more. happy happiness life wisdom i-ching wu-wei smile health Wu Wei
a339f67 You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. learning wisdom knowledge T.H. White
555f525 Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves wisdom Iain M. Banks
f91fbf6 Tibetan Buddhists say that a person should never get rid of their negative energy, that negative energy transformed is the energy of enlightenment, and that the only difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle. If we stop struggling and open up and accept what is, that neurotic energy naturally arises as wisdom, naturally informs us and becomes our teacher. wisdom neurosis Natalie Goldberg
08d9a93 It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone. pain life-lessons wisdom maturity growing-up parenting knowledge parenthood old-age J. Courtney Sullivan
a88664c I took several long walks in the Wright and adjacent Taylor Valleys. I did not feel insignificant on these journeys, dwarfed or shrugged off by the land, but superfluous. It is a difficult landscape to enter, and to develop a rapport with. It is not inimical or hostile, but indifferent, utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof. nature wisdom lanscape Barry Lopez
6afff51 Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on. travel reading wisdom Tahir Shah
17e51b8 Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. wisdom H. Rider Haggard
9521737 "Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed"." true wisdom Debbie Macomber
deeabc3 Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth. words-of-wisdom motivation love truth wisdom brandi-l-bates red-flags speak-life church Brandi L. Bates
df4e792 The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs. motivation science success love wisdom ascension atlanta belize mindfulness locs natural-hair new-thought women-of-color brandi-bates vegan luxury quotes knowledge human-nature Brandi L. Bates
3f72da1 Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we are, constantly questioning our views of the world and our place in it, while cultivating appreciation for the fullness of each moment we are alive. It is the direct opposite of taking life for granted. It is empowering as well, because paying attention in this way opens channels to deep reservoirs of creativity, intelligence, imagination, clarity, determination, choice, and wisdom within us. wisdom paying-attention self-examination waking-up mindfulness present-moment harmony Jon Kabat-Zinn
27799fd Oh, don't be so wise and stupid. stupidity wisdom oxymoron Elizabeth Gaskell
1c01b82 Feelings can be real but fickle...When we speak based on facts, not on our feelings alone, we temper and restrict our comments before hitting send...[G]ood communicators confirm their feelings with facts. feelings emotion wisdom facts Emerson Eggerichs
65cd93e In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne's lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward accommodation with an elementary desire for material comfort...because so many regard this archipelago as preeminently a terrain of the mind and spirit, a locus of biological thought and psychological rejuvenation. The sheer strength of Darwin's insight into the development of biological life gently urges a visitor to be more than usually observant here- to notice, say, that while the thirteen Galapagean finches are all roughly the same hue, it is possible to separate them according to marked differences in the shapes of their bills and feeding habits. evolution nature spirit wisdom mystery Barry Lopez
fd9588e They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?...know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise. understanding wisdom knowledge Marion Zimmer Bradley
c457903 "Dad called it "enlightenment" but to me, it just felt lonely." loneliness family love wisdom fatherhood Ta-Nehisi Coates
9598df1 Before you trust your camel to Allah's protection, tie it fast on to your fence. wisdom azerbaijan oriental islam Kurban Said
691ce61 V has finally learned that sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice. And even when it's not, those around you become uncomfortable because they think you are wise. wisdom waiting Charles Frazier
6a8e26f If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise. truth wisdom dogmatism skepticism Peter Kreeft
c4f9d8a Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns. wisdom guns Ray Bradbury
d986d99 Ki ruhazta rad a felelosseget? Ki adott bolcsesseget, hogy tudd, kinek kell elnie, es kinek kell meghalnia, es milyen uton-modon? Ki vagy te, hogy tudd, mi jar Isten fejeben? wisdom ways-of-god life-and-death judgement Dan Millman
42ec5f1 Se ciascuno pensa solo a se stesso e non si fida che di se stesso, come volete che ci sia coraggio civile, dal momento che questa virtu si basa sulla rinuncia a se stessi? Coraggio civile e coraggio militare nascono dallo stesso principio. Voi siete chiamati a dare la vostra vita in un sol momento, la nostra si consuma a goccia a goccia. Da entrambe le parti e la stessa lotta, sotto forme diverse. Non basta essere onesti per far progredire il piu piccolo paese, bisogna anche essere preparati; senza contare che istruzione, onesta, amor di patria non valgono niente se non c'e la ferma volonta di trascurare ogni interesse personale per dedicarsi al pubblico bene progress wisdom Honoré de Balzac
233a9e8 Old age had distilled her down to her essence. humanity life-lessons life wisdom essence elderly old-people womanhood old-age J. Courtney Sullivan
51fe3e5 Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life. choice life-lessons life wisdom big-picture choices-and-consequences maturation decisions choices J. Courtney Sullivan
8004a04 I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else wisdom egocentrism vision Horace Walpole
9349ad2 The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger. wisdom dupe fool John Fowles
fc6d978 I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests. kindness wisdom respect Brandon Mull
f89ddc9 "I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, good stupidity religion intelligence philosophy wisdom holiness fool William Blake
805b7c8 "Once the troublesome mind "begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work." But if you can surpass those thoughts, Teresa explained, and ascend toward God, "it is a glorious bewilderment, a heavenly madness, in which true wisdom is acquired." philosophy wisdom Elizabeth Gilbert
6464509 Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious. love wisdom precious young-love Eoin Colfer
72c6ff0 We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains identity science wisdom wise science-fiction Martin Gardner
6029a12 The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new age of the earth to begin. In order to ensure that the can be repromulgated for future mankind after each the gods have therefore designed an institution to preserve them -- the institution of the Seven Sages, a brotherhood of adepts possessed of unerring memories and supernatural powers, practitioners of yoga, performers of the ancient rituals and sacrifices, ascetics, spiritual visionaries, vigilant in the battle against evil, great teachers, knowledgeable beyond all imagining, who reincarnate from age to age as the guides of civilization and the guardians of cosmic justice. wisdom cycle institution sanskrit seven-sages civilization Graham Hancock
ea346d5 It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately... but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is generally the product of foolish doings. So, to add to my own knowledge and to enhance my wisdom I shall remain another day, to see what occurs. daring risk wisdom binah da-ath vramin folly knowledge Roger Zelazny
3bbef2a "The ways of the heart are complex." He looked out at the ocean again. "The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man's undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you." -- wisdom passionate-love pragmatism Raymond E. Feist
fe6d2de Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. wisdom Hermann Hesse
801d1c7 ...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him. understanding wisdom knowledge Dan Simmons
2b30b9d Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe. universe sobriety freedom inspiration inspire change happiness life philosophy wisdom good-books alcohol-addiction-treatment curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment recommended-reading renew sober-living treatment-program holistic-treatment addiction-free non12step holistic-health non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center chris-prentiss sober healing change-the-world health self-improvement self-help Chris Prentiss
dca1b95 The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations. pain joy happiness life love philosophy wisdom addiction-free chris-prentiss-quotes addiction-and-recovery passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss philosophy-of-life peace guilt Chris Prentiss
ca777ae Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. understanding kids youth philosophy wisdom abandonement adult-subjects condescension good-time thumbs incapable subjects away idleness understand experience children condescending eyes V.C. Andrews
984f880 By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. reading learning wisdom knowledge teaching Elizabeth Gaskell
36282ff "And what if the other kids laugh at me?" Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. "I have a Cape Breton accent! They'll know I'm from Canada and they'll start asking me if I lived in an igloo or ate maple syrup, bacon and seal meat every day!" "You're really overreacting," Susan chuckled, sipping on a glass of orange juice. "Canada is a lot like the States and the only thing separating both countries is an imaginary boarder! If anyone laughs at you, tell them it doesn't snow year-round, you got free health care while you were there and that you never rode a polar bear to school. Besides, do you know how many popular movies and TV shows from the States were filmed in Canada?" "It's not just the Canada stuff mom," Kerry sighed worriedly. "I'm from Dym, it's an industrial dump!" "Yeah, and have you looked at Pittsburgh lately?" Susan asked. "Full of coal mines and steel mills, just like Sydney was when we lived there! I actually rather came to like the pollution, I don't think I'd ever want to leave it." funny wisdom pittsburgh polar-bear seal cape-breton nova-scotia canada united-states weird morning girl teenager parents stereotype teen joke nostalgia school Rebecca McNutt
b5c504d What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, Ericsson told me, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. Practice sessions that fall short of this standard are not only less useful - they're counterproductive. They reinforce existing cognitive mechanisms instead of improving them. wisdom Susan Cain
96ec6c6 No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes.... wisdom mistakes regrets Richard Russo
4d6c171 The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he had elected to command. But to Stenham that seemed a shallow reply. To him wisdom consisted in the conscious and joyous obedience to natural laws, yet when he had said that to Moss, Moss had laughed pityingly. 'My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept,' he had told him. 'What we want now is knowledge.' Only great disillusionment could make a man say such a thing, Stenham believed. nature wisdom francis-bacon dominion tao primitive knowledge Paul Bowles
9a98b09 Un pais gana mas con un ano de paz que con diez de guerra. war wisdom queen Jean Plaidy
8183fc4 At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth... At the height of the invocation the Intercessor lifted the cloth to reveal in the dimness a glass dome inside which there was something too distant to see, until he pulled a string attached to a shutter above, letting a ray of sunlight through to strike the dome exactly. Then it became clear: a little thing like a weathervane, with four sails black on one side and white on the other, began to whirl around as the light struck it. It illustrated a moral lesson, the Intercessor explained, for the black of ignorance fled from the light, whereas the wisdom of white rushed to embrace it. { .} science wisdom crookes moral-lesson william-crookes oratory holy ignorance Philip Pullman
652073d We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural encounter with religion, in counterintuitive ways. I meet scientists who speak of a religiosity without spirituality--a reverence for the place of ritual in human life, and the value of human community, without a need for something supernaturally transcendent. There is something called the New Humanism, which is in dialogue about moral imagination and ethical passions across boundaries of belief and nonbelief. But I apprehend-- with a knowledge that is as much visceral as cognitive-- that God is love. That somehow the possibility of care that can transform us-- love muscular and resilient-- is an echo of a reality behind reality, embedded in the creative force that gives us life. human choice faith spirituality religion god life love wisdom moral-imagination new-humanism nonbelief life-force tribe diversity reverence energy community belief ethics mystery ritual Krista Tippett
d767d75 "God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, that thinking about it, worshipping it, working towards it, taking care of it, nurturing it in myself, nurturing it in other people, that really is a life's work right there, and it doesn't have to be any bigger than that. God doesn't have to be out in the next solar system over bashing asteroids together. It's plenty, just the God that I work with." Kate Braestrup" spirit empathy compassion religion care god love wisdom life-force community soul Krista Tippett
c229af9 I wonder if I should let my hair go grey so my advice will be better. wisdom grey-hair ageing Margaret Atwood
df9823d Isn't indiscretion the very definition of weakness? wisdom questions-in-life Emily St. John Mandel
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