#wisdom

Old age is the lubricant of belief. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#age

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#go #great #ill #little #little minds

When you love you give meaning to this world. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love

As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas, ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#love #sweetness #wisdom #love

Love should never be too much or too less, yet it cannot be measured. ↗

— Rizi Dame C. Briz

#lovers-sadness #measurement #wisdom-quote #love

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

— William James

#art

Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life. ↗

— National Geographic Magazine

#life #love #words #words-of-wisdom #love

We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere. ↗

— Apoorve Dubey

#quotes-on-life #wisdom-quote #attitude

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#animal-totem #animal-wisdom #beauty #beholders #inspiration

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#open-mind #wisdom #men