Quotes About Wisdom

No is golden. No is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

just close your eyes and remember everything you already know.

Anything else? To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. This is good advice for anyone at any age, but particularly for those in their twenties.

Divorcing him is the most excruciating decision I've ever made. But it was the wisest one too. And I wasn't the only one whose life is better for it. He deserved the love of a woman who didn't have the word go whispering like a deranged ghost in her ear. To leave him was a kindness of a sort, though it didn't seem that way at the time.

Why? Because in your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it.

I can't help but quote the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, who quite wisely said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

More will be revealed. Your son hasn't yet taught you everything he has to teach you. He taught you how to love like you've never loved before. He taught you how to suffer like you've never suffered before. Perhaps the next thing he has to teach

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence

enough compassion to make us feel safe within our broken need, and enough wisdom to hold on to hope.

So many books have saved my life. I never quite imagined that a guidebook would

Trust youtself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

What you've got left after all the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts.

You can learn along the way.

It's really condescending to tell you how young you are. It's even inaccurate. Some of you who are graduating from college are not young. Some of you are older than me. But to those of you new college graduates who are indeed young, the old new college graduates will back me up on this: you are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false.

Because no matter how experimental he is, his life isn't an experiment.

That's part of this world: you learn probably more from the failures than you do from the successes.

To know if only half; to love is the other half.

More things are learnt in the woods than from books; trees and rocks will teach you things not to be heard elsewhere. You will see for yourselves that honey may be gathered from stones and oil from the hardest rock. . . . St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Being seen through, with wisdom and detachment. And being found, not to have a big booger hanging out of his nose, but to be of some mysterious value.

DEDICATION "To The Creator, who gives us the Light by which we more clearly see the Darkness…

One thing guys know is when to shut up.

As I said sir, no one is perfect. Apart from google of course.