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Wisdom — lines worth keeping

42 quotes on wisdom, from the books worth reading. Steal them, cite them, live by a few.

Happiness comes from between.
Jonathan Haidt·The Happiness Hypothesis
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Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.
Don Miguel Ruiz·The Four Agreements
Wisdom
Be impeccable with your word.
Don Miguel Ruiz·The Four Agreements
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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho·The Alchemist
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee·To Kill a Mockingbird
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien·The Lord of the Rings
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling·Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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All human wisdom is contained in these two words — 'Wait and Hope.'
Alexandre Dumas·The Count of Monte Cristo
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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck·East of Eden
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding·Lord of the Flies
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But you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey·One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most.
Patrick Rothfuss·The Name of the Wind
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There's always another secret.
Brandon Sanderson·Mistborn: The Final Empire
Wisdom
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis·The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer·The Odyssey
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Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us.
William Golding·Lord of the Flies
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami·Norwegian Wood
Wisdom
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison·Invisible Man
Wisdom
Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.
Barbara Kingsolver·The Poisonwood Bible
Wisdom
Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.
Bryan Stevenson·Just Mercy
Wisdom
All flourishing is mutual.
Robin Wall Kimmerer·Braiding Sweetgrass
Wisdom
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card·Ender's Game
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light.
Ursula K. Le Guin·The Left Hand of Darkness
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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne·The Scarlet Letter
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Normalcy is a tightrope walked over an abyss.
Siddhartha Mukherjee·The Emperor of All Maladies
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb·The Black Swan
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Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
Robert Fulghum·All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy·War and Peace
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston·Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief.
Isabel Allende·The House of the Spirits
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Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.
Liu Cixin·The Three-Body Problem
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There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.
Rachel Carson·Silent Spring
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Bronte·The Professor
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
Umberto Eco·The Name of the Rose
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If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.
Amor Towles·A Gentleman in Moscow
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That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases.
R.F. Kuang·Babel
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We are all migrants through time.
Mohsin Hamid·Exit West
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You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
Rohinton Mistry·A Fine Balance
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We're more than the sum of our experiences.
Blake Crouch·Dark Matter
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It's easier to talk about money than about what money represents.
Hernan Diaz·Trust
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The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.
Lori Gottlieb·Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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No, not yet. No, not there.
E.M. Forster·A Passage to India
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