Wise Words Quotes

• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Memories, Mean

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 26, 2010

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

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  Ram Dass

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wisdom, Memories, Roots

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Women, Positivity

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

  Aimee Mullins

  Inspirational, Change, Adversity

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• Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.250, Random House

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• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

  Hypatia

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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  Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 27, 2015

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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