#wisdom

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#life

You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

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I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #poetry #purpose #wisdom #life

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#fighting #life #wisdom #life

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#love

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

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. ↗

— Rumi

#love

Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love #wisdom #life

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#king-arthur #knights #love #magic #merlin