145 Inspiring Words Of Wisdom

In a world that often feels fast-paced and overwhelming, finding clarity and inspiration can seem like a monumental task. Yet, sometimes all it takes is a few profound words to ignite a spark within us, offering guidance, comfort, and motivation. Whether you're seeking encouragement to face life's challenges or simply a moment of reflection, wisdom from those who've walked the path before us can be incredibly transformative. This collection of 145 inspiring words of wisdom serves as a beacon of light, providing insights that resonate, uplift the spirit, and empower you to forge ahead with renewed strength and perspective. Embrace these timeless words as you embark on your journey of growth and self-discovery.

1. “People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.” - Heraclitus

2. “Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” - Brian Tracy

3. “Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” - Brian Tracy

4. “Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.” - Walter Wangerin, Jr

5. “Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II” - William Shakespeare

6. “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” - Helen Keller

7. “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.” - Zsa Zsa Gabor

8. “Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.” - Victor Hugo

9. “If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck” - Albert Einstein

10. “Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.” - Edward Abbey

11. “People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.” - Lynn Marie Sager

12. “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

13. “A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.” - Lao Tzu

14. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” - Gertrude Stein

15. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

16. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” - Theodore Roosevelt

17. “There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.” - Libba Bray

18. “To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.” - Bill Watterson

19. “You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward” - Don Miguel Ruiz

20. “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” - T.S. Eliot

21. “Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion. ” - Sorin Cerin

22. “Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.” - Omar Khayyám

23. “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” - Alan Watts

24. “A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.” - Robert A. Heinlein

25. “Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.” - Jasper Fforde

26. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” - Peter Deunov

27. “Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.” - Mahatma Gandhi

28. “There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.” - John Keats

29. “Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.” - Traci Harding

30. “Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.” - Douglas Coupland

31. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” - Bruce Lee

32. “How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.” - Margaret Atwood

33. “Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match” - Joshua Caleb

34. “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” - Jess C. Scott

35. “Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.” - Mikhail Naimy

36. “But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.” - Paulo Coelho

37. “My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.” - Elise Broach

38. “After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.” - Mario Benedetti

39. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” - Karl Lagerfeld

40. “إلى البكائين على مافات٫ المتحيّرين وراء تحقيق المعجزات٫ الدائرين حول محور من أنفسهم يصارعون المنى وتصارعهم دون الانتهاء إلى قرار.. ألى هؤلاء نوجّه كلمة ( وليم جيمس ) : "ان بيننا وبين الله رابطة لاتنفصم٫ فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه-سبحانه وتعالى- تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها” - محمد الغزالي

41. “Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice. ” - Veda Catherine Storey

42. “We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.” - Tiffany Madison

43. “Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.” - George Orwell

44. “Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?” - Sorin Cerin

45. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

46. “For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.” - Khalil Gibran

47. “Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) ” - Gloria Anzaldua

48. “Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.” - Billie Jean King

49. “It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.” - Michel de Montaigne

50. “Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.” - Amit Ray

51. “A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.” - Shashi Tharoor

52. “When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view.” - Toba Beta

53. “Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.” - Simone de Beauvoir

54. “The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.” - Joseph Ratzinger

55. “The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.” - Shimon Peres

56. “She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.” - Duff Brenna

57. “Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”;Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.” - Jan Kochanowski

58. “ The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.” - Sorin Cerin

59. “The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.” - Plato

60. “IthakaAs you set out for Ithakahope the voyage is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter themunless you bring them along inside your soul,unless your soul sets them up in front of you. Hope the voyage is a long one.May there be many a summer morning when,with what pleasure, what joy,you come into harbors seen for the first time;may you stop at Phoenician trading stationsto buy fine things,mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,sensual perfume of every kind—as many sensual perfumes as you can;and may you visit many Egyptian citiesto gather stores of knowledge from their scholars. Keep Ithaka always in your mind.Arriving there is what you are destined for.But do not hurry the journey at all.Better if it lasts for years,so you are old by the time you reach the island,wealthy with all you have gained on the way,not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.Without her you would not have set out.She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.” - C.P. Cavafy

61. “Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.” - Matthew Kelly

62. “I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.” - Teresa R. Funke

63. “Do you have a leather jacket? One for a ten-year-old boy?" I asked the man selling leather jackets and gloves in Covent Garden, London. "Yes, I have one right here!" And the man dug out a fine leather jacket that looked styled and tailored for a young boy. "I'm buying this for my son" I said to him. "I love this jacket, it's perfect, I think I will just come back for it tomorrow, though! I'll be back tomorrow, okay?" And the man reached his arms above his head, and said with a big smile upon his face "You only have one life to live! What is the difference if you do something today, or if you do it tomorrow?" I thought about the man's words. And I bought the jacket. He was right, there is no difference, really, between doing something today and doing something tomorrow, when you only have one life to live! Afterall, tomorrow may never come! All you really have is today!” - C. JoyBell C.

64. “The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.” - Christopher Paolini

65. “Don’t become bigoted about bigots.” - Scott Ross

66. “From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.” - T.F. Hodge

67. “To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond?” - Gosen Wakashū

68. “My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.” - Anonymous

69. “Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence.” - Donna Quesada

70. “We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.” - Gary L. Francione

71. “Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey” - Amunhotep El Bey

72. “When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?” - Sarah Jessica Parker

73. “Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.” - Jasper Fforde

74. “Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.” - C. JoyBell C.

75. “It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.” - James Richardson

76. “...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.” - Tyler Perry

77. “We all have scars, Mia; they are supposed to make you stronger, not paralyze you.” ~Cole” - Tina Carreiro

78. “In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.” - Francis Assikinack (Blackbird)

79. “Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.” - Allan Lokos

80. “Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards” - Benny Bellamacina

81. “The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.” - Ellen Goodman

82. “Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.” - Maggie Stiefvater

83. “all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.” - Nathanial Hawthorne

84. “men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success” - John Calvin

85. “فكر قبل أن تتكلم، واقرأ قبل أن تفكر” - Fran Lebowitz

86. “Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.” - Jefferson Smith

87. “The amount of money you owe doesn't matter; as long as you use it for good” - Sandra Chami Kassis

88. “It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.” - Henry David Thoreau

89. “A botanist would have been stumped, coming across a tree like this one. Yet, if we are to judge a tree by its fruit, it was clearly an avocado. I picked the fruit, sliced it open, and tasted it to make sure. There was no doubt in my mind. If it looks like an avocado and tastes like an avocado, it has got to be an avocado. However, the tree itself had a white bark like that of a birch and its sap tasted like birch juice. Its leaves were delicate like that of a cypress, while its trunk and the root system reminded me of a baobab. Could it be that someone had grafted an avocado on to a baobab tree? And if so, why the bark so white and the leaves so, well, feathery, and delicate yet bold like a dragonfly’s wing? Why is there not another tree like it nearby? Where had the seed of this tree come from? I had no answer. So, I put the seed of the fruit in my pocket and took it home with me to see if I could make it grow.” - Uguïsse Packard

90. “قال أبو حازم: إذا كنت تطلب من الدنيا ما يكفيك فأدنى ما فيها يكفيك و إن كنت تطلب ما يغنيك و لا يغنيك ما يكفيك فليس فيها ما يغنيكIf you seek in this world what suffices you then the least of this world will suffice you and if you seek for what will fulfil you and you can't be fulfilled by what suffices you then nothing in this world will fulfill you.” - أبو حازم

91. “Sometimes it’s better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price” - Benny Bellamacina

92. “It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.” - Kevis Hendrickson

93. “...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...” - John Geddes

94. “You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...” - Steven J. Carroll

95. “Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!” - E.A. Bucchianeri

96. “One of the greatest glories of growing older is the willingness to ask why and, getting no good answer, deciding to follow my own inclinations and desires. Asking why is the way to wisdom. Why are we supposed to want possessions we don't need and work that seems beside the point and tight shoes and a fake tan? Why are we supposed to think new is better than old, youth and vigor better than long life and experience? Why are we supposed to turn our backs on those who have preceded us and to snipe at those who come after? When we were small children we asked 'Why?' constantly. Asking the question now is more a matter of testing the limits of what sometimes seems a narrow world. One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating conformity.” - Anna Quindlen

97. “Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity.” - J.K. Rowling

98. “صوت الأغلبية ليس إثباتاً للعدالة” - فريدريك شيلر

99. “You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age.” - Mark Helprin

100. “The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.” - Shannon L. Alder

101. “Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.” - Shannon L. Alder

102. “I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.” - Shannon A Thompson

103. “We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.” - Robin Hobb

104. “It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.” - Edward L. Glaeser

105. “Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours” - Benny Bellamacina

106. “Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.” - Lucretius

107. “‎Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.” - Dostoevsky Feodor Dostoevsky

108. “...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the information and control systems inscribed in it are the crucial factors, so that the all-embracing and absolute perfection of the concept can in practice coincide, indeed ultimately must coincide, with its chronic dysfunction and constitutional instability.” - W. G. Sebald

109. “Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

110. “Think before you speak, unless it's urgent” - Benny Bellamacina

111. “Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

112. “Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

113. “Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.” - Dejan Stojanovic

114. “Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” - Dejan Stojanovic

115. “They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.” - Dejan Stojanovic

116. “From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.” - Dejan Stojanovic

117. “Dreams are our only geography—our native land.” - Dejan Stojanovic

118. “Pretense cannot sustain blind power.” - Dejan Stojanovic

119. “No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.” - Dejan Stojanovic

120. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

121. “It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.” - Dejan Stojanovic

122. “It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

123. “You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

124. “Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.” - Dejan Stojanovic

125. “A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

126. “In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.” - Dejan Stojanovic

127. “The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that’s how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.” - Wayne Cordeiro

128. “Fear the Lord in every way,and you will become wise” - Apocrypha

129. “You have to choose your future regrets.” - Christopher Hitchens

130. “For modern people the pursuit of wisdom sounds like something you'd have to travel to Tibet for. To us, wisdom is mystical and esoteric. It conjures up images of cave-dwelling hermits, saffron-robed monks, and, well, Yoda.” - J. Mark Bertrand

131. “let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not” - Christopher Paolini

132. “If we're lucky, we find the one person who will hold our trust and keep it sacred and safe against all attackers. That one soul who will restore our belief that people are decent and kind, and that life, while messy, is still the most wondrous gift anyone can know. But until that day comes, we have to try and remember that home isn't a specific place or person. It's a feeling we carry inside ourselves. That touch of the divine that lights a fire inside us that burns out the past and consumes the pain until nothing is left but a warmth that allows us to love others more than ourselves. A warmth that only grows when we do right even while others seek to do us wrong. Peace is knowing that one life, no matter how trivial it seems, touches thousands of others, and learningto respect that about all people. While you may not mean much to the world, to those who know and love you, you are their entire world. And it is knowledge that no one can hurt you unless you allow them to. The only power they have isn't something they're taken or demanded. It's what we give them by choice. And while it is imperative that we value the lives of others, it is equally important to value our own.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

133. “If you love three people at the same time, choose the first one, because if there was a 4th or 5th one, you might still fall for them.” - Emmanuel Aghado

134. “In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.” - Michael Munro

135. “The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.” - G.K. Chesterton

136. “Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.” - Marcel Proust

137. “Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.” - The Dalai Lama

138. “Кучето обича господаря си, а котката неговата къща.” - Чудомир

139. “While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

140. “Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.” - Stifyn Emrys

141. “It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.” - Steven J. Carroll

142. “Learn, or you'll be made to learn.” - Raheel Farooq

143. “In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and squirm and our minds go far away. This can be so uncomfortable that we feel’s it’s impossible to stay. Yet this feeling can teach us not just about ourselves but what it is to be human…we really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience. It goes against the grain to stay present. These are the times when only gentleness and a sense of humor can give us the strength to settle down…so whenever we wander off, we gently encourage ourselves to “stay” and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!” - Pema Chodron

144. “Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.” - Dennis E. Adonis

145. “I know that whatever you decide, you’ll be happy, Summer, and that is the only thing I could ever wish. Whatever happens in the rest of this summer, whatever happens the rest of your life, it’s important that you are happy, and stay that way. – Aunt Sookie” - Kailin Gow