Quotes About Wisdom

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

What have you learned from those times when life was easy?

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

who remains a wise mentor and cherished friend.

It's not your fault. And regrets are a waste of time. You have to live your life as if you will never feel sorry for anything. It's just that it's easier to do things right, so you don't have to apologize later.

the face is a road map of life.

We all change," I said offhandedly. "We get older, a little wiser … we learn not to judge people and things by homelands, language, gender." "Do we?" Abbu grinned. "So we do. Yes, Sandtiger, the woman is much better than I expected. But there is still much I can teach her." "Wait till she warms up." I showed him my teeth. "Better yet, wait until she sings." Abbu wasn't listening.

That's just how it is. You get halfway through your life and realize you've done it all wrong. You've picked the wrong jobs and followed the wrong dreams. Every decision from your cradle to the counter of an upscale children's boutique in Portland, Oregon gratingly names little fig where you now stand tethered at the age of thirty-seven for thirteen-dollars-an-hour-plus-commission has been all wrong.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Education is the most important thing you can have," he said.

said, "The Guiding Light.

I read, in a fascinating book by F David Peat called Blackfoot Physics, that although we in the West think of the brain as the seat of learning, in indigenous cultures it is the belly.