Quotes About Wisdom

Make some memories that will keep you smug in your dotage.

Jim [Henson] had written letters to his five children to be opened only after his death. Brian read from his. Jim wrote, 'Be good to each other. Love and forgive everybody.' I remembered Jim telling me that he never wasted energy on hating anybody; he had too much thinking to do.

Don't waste an opportunity for happiness. Just be wise.

She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

God has delegated to us--to all of us--a profound responsibility for what is happening all around us and for the care and wise stewardship of all creation.

A common-place book is a technology of resistance against getting lost on the urgent surface of life.

The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.

That from which these things are born That by which they live That to which they return at death Try to know that

Read, read, read. That's all I can say.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

Why is it that STUPIDITY is not one of the Deadly Sins?

Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

I)t is in curiosity, first, and then in knowledge and reflection that freedom rests.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

I'm a hick," I recall saying to him. "No," Harrison answered. "You think you're less than you are. You're a smart hick." And then, "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.

And my daughter laughs and laughs and laughs, and I say, "Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life." Now

I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?

Many would argue there are certain otherwise-private stories I might've been wiser to keep closer to the vest. That vest that knows no proximity.

Do I at times wish I'd had a calmer, wiser, and more manageable sort of existence? One that even at times included pauses and yawning? Absolutely. But then who would I be?

Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life.

But the main thing I've learned, I learned all by myself, no help needed. I learned not to get my tongue pierced. Because if you're getting it pierced for the reason why I think you're getting it pierced and you're not good at that thing to begin with, no little piece of jewelry is going to save the day.

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