#wisdo

But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#romantic

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#chi-ro-jin #confidence #deception #disciple #limitations

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #cleverness #discovering #fuss #magical

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#opinion #probes #social-science #understanding #wisdom

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#insight #wealth #wisdom #wit #insight

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#fighting #life #wisdom #life

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#love

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#women #love

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

#despair #ignorance #insight #loneliness #love

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. ↗

— Rumi

#love