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• A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Men, Fortune

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.345

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

  Plutarch

  Gold, Wealth, Silver

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhist

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Business, Self Esteem

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• Wisdom grows in quiet places.

  Austin O'Malley

  Quiet, Grows, Quiet Place

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• If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

  Saint Basil

  Men, Leaving, Saint

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• For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

  Thomas Merton

  Destiny, Want, One Thing

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

  Wallace Stegner

  Knowing, Understanding, Accepting

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• JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

  Paulo Coelho

  Joy, Foundation, Wise Words

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 26, 2011

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Inspiring

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• The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

  Thomas Merton

  Hurt, Insignificant Things, Suffering Pain

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Greed, Insightful

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• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Humility, Men

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• We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Courage, Fruit, Bears

  "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracián, §4, 1647.

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• Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

  Bodhidharma

  Practice, Two, Path

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

  George Santayana

  Graduation, Diversity, Mind

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Writing, Men, Keys

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• Moderation in all things.

  Terence

  Advice, Moderation, All Things

  Terence, R. H. Martin (1976). “Adelphae”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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