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Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.
Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Look for the answer inside your question.
Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
It takes a long time to become young.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.
The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
What you think you become.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
All is well that ends well
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.
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.
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
