Wisdom quotes

“Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.” Lillie Langtry

“No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.” Lillie Langtry

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” Charles Schulz

“No problem is too big to run away from.” Charles Schulz

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” Samuel Butler

“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.” Samuel Butler

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” Joseph Addison

“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.” Joseph Addison

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” James Allen

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” James Allen

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.” James Allen

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” James Allen

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” Barbara de Angelis

“Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” Barbara de Angelis

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” Barbara de Angelis

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” Thomas Aquinas

“The things that we love tell us what we are.” Thomas Aquinas

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.” Mary Kay Ash

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.” Mary Kay Ash

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” James Baldwin

“Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.” James Baldwin

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” James Baldwin

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” Amelia Barr

“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.” Amelia Barr

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” James Barrie

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” James Barrie

“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.” James Barrie

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett

“Words are all we have.” Samuel Beckett

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.” Henry Ward Beecher