100 Quotes About Wisdom

As humans, we have a tendency to try to gain knowledge and become wise as a means of bettering ourselves. Unfortunately, wisdom is something that comes from experience and understanding. It’s not something you can learn from a book. But it’s important to remember that the greater your knowledge, the more you gain from it Read more

The below quotes about wisdom will give you a new perspective on life and how you should live your life.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you...
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When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. Jess C. Scott
The man of knowledge must be able not only to...
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,...
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection Sharon Salzberg
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In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. Dorothy Parker
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Sharon Salzberg
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That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession. Jim Morrison
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those...
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Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait. Jess C. Scott
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Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another. Charles Bukowski
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Ur be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. Dorothy Parker
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. Karl Lagerfeld
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A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement Jess C. Scott
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I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they? Jess C. Scott
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V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. Jess C. Scott
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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, Amit Ray
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Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you. Jason Mraz
Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will...
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Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things thenleave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are. Anna Godbersen
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My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. Jess C. Scott
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit...
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Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Unknown
Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.
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Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage. Hannah Harrington
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Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. Richelle Mead
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. Nisargadatta Maharaj
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the...
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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.] Gautama Buddha
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in...
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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. Cornel West
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can...
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I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect. Amit Kalantri
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There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. Lisa Kleypas
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How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next–if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions–you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. Margaret Atwood
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Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. Jess C. Scott
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying...
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I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) Eve Ensler
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I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do – to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like. Jess C. Scott
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more...
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Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy
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It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be. . Jaeda DeWalt
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Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! Allan Rufus
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Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons — Fear and Panic — were spawned from both war and love. Rick Riordan
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for...
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love. Joyce Carol Oates
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science...
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
May you live every day of your life.
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May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not...
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If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. Chad Sugg
The best index to a person's character is how he...
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The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. Abigail Van Buren
The past has no power over the present moment.
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The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what...
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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. Paulo Coelho
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains...
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats
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Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. C. Joybell C.
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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is..and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be..and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart..no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them. . Robert A. Heinlein
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring...
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Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think. Roy T. Bennett
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you...
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I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself...
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy
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We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Terence McKenna
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and...
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others....
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me? Brian Tracy
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your...
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Richard Bach
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Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied. Roy T. Bennett
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Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens. And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another. Jim Butcher
It's not what you say out of your mouth that...
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It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! Robert T. Kiyosaki
A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person...
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A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent. Roy T. Bennett
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can...
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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. C. Joybell C.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death,...
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Ernest Hemingway
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If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. Roopleen
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are...
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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged Heinrich Heine
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that...
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. Brian Tracy
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback,...
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Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it... Don't allow his anger to become your anger. Bohdi Sanders
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May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire. D. Simone
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Obscurity and a competence–that is the life that is best worth living. Mark Twain
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If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. Miguel Ruiz
Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
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Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why. William Stafford
When you make a choice, you change the future.
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When you make a choice, you change the future. Deepak Chopra
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Harper Lee
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If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. Lao Tzu
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a...
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Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever. Wil Zeus
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to...
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All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. A.J. Russell
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[ But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Haruki Murakami
I've come to believe that all my past failure and...
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Anthony Robbins
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place...
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. Lois Lowry
Look for the good in every person and every situation....
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Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. Brian Tracy
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is...
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Eric Berne
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse Joseph Brodsky
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. Brian Tracy
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There is no escape–we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Frank Herbert
Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you...
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Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. Bohdi Sanders
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Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan . Gary L. Francione
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts...
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive? Andrew Clements
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either...
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Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. Brian Tracy
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To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it. C. Joybell C.
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it...
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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. Eric Idle
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance,...
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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. Deepak Chopra
The way I define happiness is being the creator of...
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The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. Leo Babauta
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It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living.. . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions. Gordon B. Hinckley
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level...
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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. Brian Tracy
The act of taking the first step is what separates...
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The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want...
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often. Brian Tracy
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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. Brian Tracy
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has...
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The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. AlHasan AlBasri
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every...
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it....
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The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. Leo Babauta
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
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Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched... J.k. Rowling
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. Karl Lagerfeld
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but...
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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. Bill Watterson