#wisdom

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#family

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies. ↗

— Madeleine De Souvre Sable

#learning #wisdom #humility

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#life #love #rebirth #sacrifice #wisdom

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. ↗

— John Selden

#born #his #learning #man #matter

Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#culture #inspirational #spirit #spiritual-wisdom #wisdom

Three things which inspire the poet:An eye to see the world clearly A heart which feels sincerely And courage to render faithfully Little Book of Celtic Wisdom compiled by Giuletta Wood ↗

— Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou

#courage

Thats not a bad word, hate and war are bad words, fuck isnt. ↗

— Judy Blume

#life #philosophy #truth #wisdom #humor

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art. ↗

— Duff Brenna

#art

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. ↗

— Larry Merchant

#cagney #eye #follow #great #guy