Quotes About Wisdom

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Life is a one time offer, use it well.

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Let go of the past, but keep the lessons it taught you.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

"Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise; Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer."

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay week so the wolves can get you. She says, toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

I learned many life lessons from watching my big sister make mistakes!

It's like having a big sister around who's been able to show me some things about myself and about life and about this crazy sort of career thing.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go!

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.

Never do today. What you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.