Words of Wisdom

 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.  ~ Søren Kierkegaard




Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Saint Augustine


  


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide


 

 

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. ~ Isaac Newton


  


To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


 


"Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future." ~ Euripides


 


Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ~Audrey Hepburn

 


 

"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future." ~ Saint Augustine

 


  

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw


 


“The tighter you cling to your current identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.” - James Clear

 


 

"Two truths cannot contradict one another." ~ Galileo Galilei


 

 

"I am not poor.  Poor are those who desire many things." ~ Leonardo da Vinci


 


"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~ Leonardo da Vinci



   

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." ~ Isaac Newton

 

 


"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." ~ Sun Tzu

 



"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price." ~ Sun Tzu


 


“They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” —Kurt Cobain



 

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ~ Malcolm X



 

“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” —Buckminster Fuller

 


 

"Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


   


"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." ~ Euripides




"Hindsight is not a strategy." ~ Jane Bryant Quinn

 


 

"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses." ~ Socrates

 



"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." ~ Nikola Tesla




 

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." ~ Sun Tzu

 

   


"A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe." ~ Euripides


 

 

“If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.” —Elaine S. Dalton




“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” —Steve Maraboli




"In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man." ~ Galileo Galilei


 

 

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family." ~ Mother Teresa


 


"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it." ~ Mike Tyson

 


 

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

 


 

"When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing." ~ Sun Tzu


 


 

"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across." ~ Sun Tzu


   


"Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you" ~ Mother Teresa


 

 

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci


 


“When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.” - Epictetus



 

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 


"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." ~ Leonardo da Vinci


  


"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts." ~ Euripides


 


"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends." ~ Euripides

 


  

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees." ~ Euripides


 


"If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you." ~ Mike Tyson

 

 


"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~ Leonardo da Vinci




“Life is short, and every moment is precious.”—Gad Saad



 

“The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.” —Epicurus




"Opportunities increase as they are taken." ~ Sun Tzu

 



"I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things." ~ Mother Teresa



 

"The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone." ~ Pythagoras


 


"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action." ~ Pythagoras

  



"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform." ~ Pythagoras



 

"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk." ~ Euripides


 


"Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt



 

“It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you’re different than anyone else.” —Tony Bennett 



 

"Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb." ~ Pythagoras


 


"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men." ~ Pythagoras


   


“How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?” - Katie McGarry

 



"Be yourself; everyone else is taken." ~ Oscar Wilde


 


"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." ~ George Orwell

 


 

“I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.” —Robert Frost




 

"A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die." ~ Sun Tzu

 



“Be the person your dog thinks you are.” —Ricky Gervais



 

"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear." ~ George Orwell

 


 

“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” —Picasso




 

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth." ~ George Orwell

 


 

"Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you." ~ Pythagoras

 



"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." ~ George Orwell

 

 


"Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die." ~ Yi Sun-sin

 



"I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed, but never shamed." ~ Yi Sun-sin


  


"The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains." ~ Takeda Nobushige


 

 

"The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man." ~ Sun Tzu

 


 

“If you don’t set your own values, other people will.” —Shane Parrish

 

 


Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.


 


“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.” —Socrates

 


 


Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. - Zig Zigla


 


“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” —Rita Mae Brown


 


Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ~Henry David Thoreau


 


"Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours." ~ Euripides


 


“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt


  



"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt


 



“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude” ~Eleanor Roosevelt


 


“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”


 


“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”



"Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm." ~ Leonardo da Vinci




"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." ~ Saint Augustine


 


“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” —Bindi Irwin




"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 


 

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ~Roy T. Bennett

 

 


"I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt




“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”—Mother Theresa




“You may delay, but time will not.”—Benjamin Franklin

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