#wisdo

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#compassion #greatest #i #just #patience

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#body #bright #clear #empty #enlightenment

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#building #campaign #fast #i #learned

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? ↗

— Jim Carrey

#better #death #dreams #give #left

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#expect #government #human #human wisdom #people

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#achievements #call #claim #experiments #failures

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

#currency #elder #i #i am #i see

Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out. ↗

— Hailey Edwards

#hard-truths #wisdom #life

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#big #bipartisan #cooperation #done #get