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🦉 Wisdom
“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
Montaigne models the wise approach of pausing to examine rather than rushing to conclude.
“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
— Oliver Sacks
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
— Mary Oliver
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
— Thoreau
— Søren Kierkegaard
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
