Quotes About Wisdom

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

Rob's story reminds me that how we listen is sometimes (always?) more important than what is said. Maybe that's why Jesus was forever asking people if they had ears to hear what he was saying. And I suspect it's also why the very first word of the great Benedictine Rule, which has guided monastic communities for 1,500 years, is this one little word: listen. Fifteen centuries of successful community built on the power of mere listening.

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

If life is a book, then read it while you can.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

I want to age with some dignity.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

For just as without night there is no day, without work there is no play, without hunger there is no satiation, without fear there is no courage, without tears there is no joy, and without anger, there is no real love.

Grieving expands Insight and Understanding