#wisdom

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#love #wisdom #youth #love

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#marriage

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most. ↗

— Deborah Day

#values #values-in-life #wisdom #business

Great men are not known by their sizes, but by the greatness in their characters ↗

— OladosuOlatayo

#truth #wisdom #men

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #golden #golden-rule #imperfect #imperfection

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#questioning #wisdom #motivational

He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects. Science cannot comprehend a miracle. ↗

— Erich Segal

#art

Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#nature

Human nature is all alike. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#nature