Quotes About Wisdom

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." What

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you're a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

After all, as the old Scot saying went, there wasn't much guile in a heart that was singing.

The great tragedy is that knowledge-even incomplete-comes late.

I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.

Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, "Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.

Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.

People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

Josh had made a lot of mistakes in his life, and he'd tried to learn from all of them. He definitely tried to not repeat them. Hiring Grace had been his favorite mistake so far.

My momma always said that two rattlesnakes living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters. So I had three daughters to improve the odds.

She'd read somewhere that every woman got a freebie stupid mistake when it came to men.

I know we're supposed to be grateful for all the mistakes we make, but mostly I'm just grateful that thoughts don't appear in bubbles over our heads.

Be smart. Be brave. Be vulnerable.

Opening my mouth never works as well as keeping it shut and minding my own business." Hud

Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment." TARA DANIELS

JiminyCricket

We both made some questionable decisions," he said. "Decisions that might've been different if we'd been older and smarter. Or had anyone in our lives given enough of a shit to guide us.

What's happened is a part of you now. Doesn't mean you have to take it seriously all the time. Joking is healthier than not dealing.

He who is most content with the least has the most," and "I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19). That's especially important for those of us who are fix-it people. If I am a fix-it person and my kids have a problem, I consider it my job to intervene. That's what I do, and that's who I am—Mr. Fix-It. But unless our adult kids ask us for help, we must resist the impulse to fix their problems.