#wise

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. ↗

— Idries Shah

#enlightenment #little #must #otherwise #overwhelm

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear. ↗

— Confucius

#virtue #wise #anxiety

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective. ↗

— Toba Beta

#others #perspective #point-of-view #willing-to-see #wisely

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#forgive #naive #neither #nor #stupid

The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ↗

— George Bancroft

#public #than #wiser #wisest

[Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so. ↗

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

#wise-words #inspirational

I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth. ↗

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

#blindness #clear #fool #love #wise

Don't let sex make you a mother before love makes you a wife. ↗

— Kemi Edonmi

#wise #love

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#act #always #being #even #every

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them. ↗

— Brigham Young

#forget #new #ones #our #replace