wisdom quotes

“It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

— Edward Estlin Cummings

“Life is just a journey.”

— Princess Diana

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

“Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.”

— Stephen Covey

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.”

— Cate Blanchett

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”

— Philip Sidney

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

— Ansel Adams

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

“Man is a universe within himself.”

“Truth is subject to too much analysis.”

— Frank Herbert

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.”

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

— Edmund Burke

“Ability is nothing without opportunity. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

— James Allen

“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”

— Marlene Dietrich

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”

“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

— Rene Descartes

“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”

— Desmond Tutu

“You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.”

— Charles Stanley

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