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.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: wisdom youth maturity vitality
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
Zora Neale HurstonTags: wisdom age experience youth
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
Ursula K. Le GuinA craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute
Tags: wisdom spirituality sufi rumi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiTags: wisdom truth happiness violence satyagraha
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SocratesTags: wisdom power-of-words definitions power-of-thoughts rational-thought
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 BabautaTags: wisdom life happiness choice inspiration circumstance pleaure
At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
Leo BabautaTags: wisdom life questions choices
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
VoltaireTags: wisdom
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