#wisdom

Advice from a tree: Stand tall and proud, go out on a limb, remember your roots, drink plenty of water, be content with your natural beauty, enjoy the view. ↗

— Unknown

#wisdom-inspirational #beauty

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. ↗

— Mary Astell

#good #grandeur #great #makes #sets

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#chivalry #love #motto #only #serve

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#elizabeth-gilbert #enlightenment #life #success #wisdom

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #bill #bill gates #billionaires #carnegie

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#silence #sleep #wisdom

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#difference #fool #generally #greatest #happiest

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

In many parts of this world water is Scarce and precious. People sometimes have to walk A great distance Then carry heavy jugs upon their Heads. Because of our wisdom, we will travel Far for love. All movement is a sign of Thirst. Most speaking really says "I am hungry to know you." Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy. Dear one, Why wait until you are dying To discover that divine Truth? ↗

— حافظ

#love