#wisdo

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#encourage #how #i #inner #into

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#everything #wanting #win #winning

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. ↗

— Robert Orben

#every #feet #filled #mouth #neat

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#deliberately #kindness #opportunities #patience #seek

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#doctrine #theology #wisdom #experience

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ↗

— William James

#art #being #knowing #overlook #wise

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#away #conventional #conventional wisdom #i #know

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. ↗

— John Jewel

#continue #end #ever #finger #fountain

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#folly #keep #others #secret #wisdom

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. ↗

— Erica Jong

#also #being #cover #ever #fool