Quotes About Wisdom

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

I read.. because one life is not enough

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!