Wisdom — lines worth keeping
42 quotes on wisdom, from the books worth reading. Steal them, cite them, live by a few.
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Happiness comes from between.
Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.
Be impeccable with your word.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words — 'Wait and Hope.'
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
But you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most.
There's always another secret.
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.
Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.
All flourishing is mutual.
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.
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light.
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.
Normalcy is a tightrope walked over an abyss.
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief.
Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.
That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases.
We are all migrants through time.
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
We're more than the sum of our experiences.
It's easier to talk about money than about what money represents.
The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.
No, not yet. No, not there.