For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.
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Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.
Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.
There are unlimited possibilities in life.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren__ reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don__ have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there__ nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.
And I would have answered:"The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me...
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired
COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.
Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know__nd yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know__ven if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction__han to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.