🦉 Wisdom

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

— Plato

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

— Samuel Johnson

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

— Mark Twain

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

— Seneca

“The small man builds cages for everyone he knows, while the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.”

— Hafiz

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

— Tony Robbins

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

— Hannah Arendt

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

“Man is the measure of all things.”

— Protagoras

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

— Plato

“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

— Albert Einstein

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”

— Zhuangzi

“Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”

— Jordan Peterson

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

— Carl Sagan

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”

— Aristotle

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Fortune favors the brave.”

— Terence

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

— Herman Melville

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.”

— Adam Grant

“All of mans miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

— Albert Camus

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first by reflection, which is noblest; second by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

— Confucius

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

— Jordan Peterson

“The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.”

— Sadhguru

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

— Unknown

“Peace is not an absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

— Erasmus

“Understanding is the other name of love. If you do not understand, you cannot love.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Cicero

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

— Lao Tzu

“Keep your identity small.”

— Paul Graham

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

— Thomas Paine

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”

— Henry Ford

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity.”

— Simone Weil

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle