Wisdom 5
• Worrying is like a rocking chair it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere. – Van Wilder
• A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. -Benjamin Franklin
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naguib
• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. -Doug Larson
• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. -Bergen Evens
• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. -William Cowper
• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippman
• The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. -William Hutton
• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -Jack London
• Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. -Elmer G. Letterman
• The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Allan K. Chalmers
• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. -Martha Washington
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -Margaret Thatcher
• If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. -Albert Einstein
• Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. -Martin Buxbaum
• It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed. -Storm Jameson
• One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with your luck. -Carl Zuckmayer
• Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. -Pablo Picasso
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland
• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. -Dr. Seuss
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