Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!
C. JoyBell C.Tag: wisdom life people living life-lessons life-and-living thorns wisdom-quotes petals
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
M.M. KayeTag: wisdom advice common-sense m-m-kaye
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Iain PearsTag: wisdom power justice philosophy tyranny virtue public-service
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: wisdom truth friend friendship friends advice true-love people human-nature criticism christian flattery catholic caring catholic-author true-friends companion gadfly acquaintances tough-love wise-sayings caring-for-others constructive-criticism hard-truths
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: wisdom gold curiosity human-nature proverbs common-sense greed faults sad-but-true catholic-author avarice riches gadfly wise-sayings deadly-sins greediness greedy-people mammon
... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.
Daisy GoodwinTag: wisdom money wealth riches cash duchess cora
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell BerryTag: wisdom
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
Wayne W. DyerTag: wisdom
Jetzt, wo sie aus dem schwimmenden Paradies entkommen sind, wollen sie nicht mehr zurück', hatte Talm geantwortet. 'Die Verlockungen des Bösen.'
'Das griechische Wort, das in der Bibel mit Sünde übersetzt ist', sagte Sebastiaan, 'lautet hamartia. Hamartia bedeutet: Das Ziel verfehlen. Die Griechen gebrauchten das Wort für einen Bogenschützen, der daneben schoss. Hamartia. Sünde ist also nichts anderes als: Schlecht zielen. Stell dir vor, ein Bogenschütze schießt daneben und sucht die Ursache dafür außerhalb seiner selbst- dann wird es nie etwas mit ihm, dann wird es immer schlimmer. Wir dürfen das Böse also nicht außerhalb unserer selbst suchen.
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