“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 56
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“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.”
“Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.”
“For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.”
“There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
“He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible.”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”
“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”
“It is not true that as the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer.”
“Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.”
“The perfection of a thing does not annul its existence, but, on the contrary, asserts it.”