#wisdo

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#philosophical #wisdom #friendship

It takes courage to live, yes, but it takes true bravery to stand your ground in a world aligned against you. ↗

— Jake Bonsignore

#wisdom #courage

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. ↗

— Paul Greengrass

#give #inspiring #painful #remembering #wisdom

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death. ↗

— Robert M. Price

#maturity #rebirth #wisdom #death

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#cannot #communicate #communicated #find #fortified

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #attitude

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beneficial #consequences #evil #extremes #forget

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ↗

— James Huneker

#dares #direction #first #first step #fool

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#always #strength

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#goodness #inspirational #self-actualization #wisdom #inspirational