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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others.
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.