#wisdo

Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#confidence #wisdom #age

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #wisdom #world #beauty

Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#psychology #self-help #wisdom #art

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #life-is-a-bowl-of-cherries

I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie! ↗

— P.C. Cast

#wisdom-in-fiction #attitude

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mystery #novel #tolerance #wisdom #attitude

You will never be satisfied with anything less than the highest you can attain. ↗

— Apoorve Dubey

#growth #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #inspiring #motivational

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#confidence #doubt #positive-attitude #positive-thinking #positivity

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge. ↗

— Roopleen

#inspiration #inspire #life #motivation #never-give-up