#wisdom

...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the information and control systems inscribed in it are the crucial factors, so that the all-embracing and absolute perfection of the concept can in practice coincide, indeed ultimately must coincide, with its chronic dysfunction and constitutional instability. ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#human-condition #wisdom #design

A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #love #philosophy #quote #wisdom

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. ↗

— Anthony Robbins

#wisdom #dreams

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ↗

— John Patrick

#life #makes #man #pain #think

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#versa #vice #vice versa #wisdom

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#answer #answers #dejan-stojanovic #early-age #literature

There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest. ↗

— Najeev Raj Nadarajah

#inspirational-attitude #life-experience #living #living-to-the-fullest #success

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#suffering #wisdom #art

Question everything, unless it's the answer ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #life

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. ↗

— Plutarch

#future #good #learn #make #man