Quotes About Wisdom

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt. -Margery Williams

I don't know why I'm sitting here trying to give you advice. I'm a single divorcee and I'm forty. Two. Forty-two. What do I know about anything? That's a rhetorical question, by the way.

My older sister has a way of sounding right.

Youth is truly wasted on the young.

How dare he say I need to grow up? What does he know about anything? As if he's so mature!

Stormy lived more life in one night than most people do their whole lives. She was a force of nature. She taught me that love—" My eyes well up and I start over. "Stormy taught me that love is about making brave choices every day. That's what Stormy did. She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same. And now she's off on a new adventure, and we wish her well.

How would I even know what that felt like? I'm seventeen, for God's sake." "Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?

Life is long if you let it be.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

books are awsome

What Rilke said: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

How do you know all this?" "I'm a fucking librarian.

If only I'd remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.

The Buddhists say that wisdom may be attained by reaching the three marks. The first is an understanding of the absence of self. The second is an understanding of the impermanence of all things. The third is an understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of ordinary experience.

An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul.

Sri Ramakrishna said, Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

There is a compound of grace in contentment: there is faith, and there is humility, and love, and there is patience, and there is wisdom, and there is hope; almost all graces are compounded. [...] In one action that you do you may exercise one grace especially, but in contentment you exercise a great many graces at once.

Chapter 1 Prayer Points Pray for President Trump to walk humbly. Pray Proverbs 16:7, Psalm 25:9, Micah 6:8, Colossians 3:12-13, and James 4:10 over him. Pray for godly counsel to be released to President Trump and received by him. Pray Proverbs 19:20-21 over him. A Shocking Visit to the White House In a prophetic dream in early February of 2019, I arrived at the White House in a white limousine.

Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.

Kings are (nay were before they were Kings, since it was this qualification determined their subjects to make them Kings) as strong as so many Hercules's; but then, as to their wisdom, or their goodness, there is not much to say.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.