Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinTag: wisdom philosophy
Purity of heart is what enables us to see.
Pope Benedict XVIAt times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.
Ana MonnarTag: wisdom love compassion forgiveness anger quote
We have all grown wiser.
Ana MonnarTag: wisdom wisdom-inspirational
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
Gautama BuddhaTag: wisdom life inspirational truth philosophy
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Gautama BuddhaTag: wisdom truth knowledge spiritual intellectual
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse 223]
Tag: wisdom inspirational truth kindness love knowledge goodness anger generosity
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
Billie Jean KingTag: wisdom responsibility decision tennis consequence
Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.
Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”
—Zarost
Tag: wisdom power greed fantasy-books fantasy-fiction
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