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Jimbuna
03-29-23, 10:36 AM
When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'
Robert Redford
“If we only dwell in our comfort, the world will probably pass us by, and nothing will change. We may never become who we truly want and are intended to be.” Kristen Moeller,
Markus
Jimbuna
03-30-23, 08:05 AM
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
Jimbuna
03-31-23, 01:02 PM
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Markus
Jimbuna
04-01-23, 09:31 AM
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
F. Sionil Jose
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
– Oprah Winfrey
Markus
Jimbuna
04-02-23, 02:24 PM
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
Mary J. Blige
Each new day is a blank canvas, waiting for the vibrant colors of your dreams, passion, and resilience to paint a masterpiece of possibility.
Markus
Jimbuna
04-03-23, 01:07 PM
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
Joseph Prince
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment; it transforms ordinary actions into extraordinary achievements.
Jim Rohn
Markus
Jimbuna
04-04-23, 10:09 AM
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
– Akira Kurosawa
Markus
Jimbuna
04-05-23, 07:46 AM
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Rowan Williams
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou
Markus
Platapus
04-05-23, 04:25 PM
I never let my schooling interfere with my education -- Mark Twain
Jimbuna
04-06-23, 09:24 AM
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
Thiruvalluvar
Life and death are two sides of the same coin, an eternal dance of beginnings and endings. Embrace the fleeting nature of existence, for it is in the face of impermanence that we learn to cherish the present moment and the connections that make life truly meaningful
unknown(no name was added)
Markus
Jimbuna
04-07-23, 01:27 PM
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
Never regret anything that has happened in your life; it cannot be changed, undone, or forgotten.
Take it all as lessons learned and move on with grace.
We do not learn from regret, but rather from the realization that every experience, whether good or bad, is a stepping stone on the journey of life.
Unknown
Markus
Jimbuna
04-08-23, 01:15 PM
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Markus
Jimbuna
04-09-23, 04:58 AM
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
Markus
Jimbuna
04-10-23, 12:12 PM
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
Louise L. Hay
“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Markus
Jimbuna
04-11-23, 05:26 AM
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
Denial is not a river in Egypt, it’s a fortress we build to protect ourselves from the truth.
– Unknown
Markus
Von Due
04-11-23, 04:36 PM
Make THEM say no.
Sam.Willow
04-12-23, 08:26 AM
Some exclaim save the earth! I scream, earth 1st, We can mine the other planets later!
Jimbuna
04-12-23, 08:35 AM
It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.
Ciara
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Markus
Jimbuna
04-13-23, 09:40 AM
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
bell hooks
“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”
– Marsha Norman
Markus
Jimbuna
04-14-23, 05:15 AM
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
Sophia Amoruso
The legacy we leave behind is built upon the foundation of our character. Nurturing it with integrity and compassion sets the stage for a life well-lived. By staying true to our values and treating others with kindness, we create a positive impact that lasts beyond our time on this earth.
(No name was added)
Markus
Jimbuna
04-15-23, 05:20 AM
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.
Michael Eric Dyson
Sam.Willow
04-15-23, 07:21 AM
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
– Steven Wright
Markus
Jimbuna
04-16-23, 05:04 AM
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time waits for no one, but it keeps moving forward on its own accord.
– Dr. Maxcelle Yvonne Forrester
Markus
Jimbuna
04-17-23, 04:49 AM
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
In the garden of life, a strong woman is the wildflower that thrives in adversity and blossoms against all odds.
– Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
04-18-23, 10:30 AM
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller
Rockstar
04-18-23, 03:16 PM
Don’t hold your farts in. They’ll travel up your spine and into your brain and that’s where crappy ideas come from.
In our path into the future-We have a tendency to look back at the hole we fell into in the past and do not discover the hole who lay in front of us
Author Markus(Moi)
Platapus
04-18-23, 04:14 PM
Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the world's obligation to tiptoe around you. - Brian Weiner.
Jimbuna
04-19-23, 05:12 AM
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Jimbuna
04-20-23, 07:55 AM
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
Alain de Botton
Promises, when kept they can build worlds of happiness, when broken; they can do more damaged than assumed. So keep your promises, make them yourself, not have others make them for you; and become a better person, for everyone.
– The Ice Cave: The Poetry Collection
Markus
Rockstar
04-20-23, 10:25 PM
You never know what you have until it’s gone. Toilet paper, for instance.
Jimbuna
04-21-23, 05:35 AM
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
Do not allow others to tame your spirit; it was born to be wild, free, and unapologetically authentic
Unknown
Markus
Jimbuna
04-22-23, 09:50 AM
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don’t chase the reflections of others; be the one who casts your own light.
– Anonymous
Markus
Sam.Willow
04-23-23, 07:15 AM
“Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.”– Thomas Sowell
Jimbuna
04-23-23, 02:16 PM
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
Adam Schiff
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Markus
Jimbuna
04-24-23, 07:38 AM
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
Urjit Patel
Sam.Willow
04-24-23, 08:06 AM
“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”– Thomas Sowell
Jimbuna
04-24-23, 12:35 PM
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
The strength of a Taurus lies not in their horns, but in their unwavering spirit
Anonymous
Markus
Jimbuna
04-25-23, 07:03 AM
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Markus
Jimbuna
04-26-23, 05:07 AM
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
– Honoré de Balzac
Markus
Jimbuna
04-27-23, 10:15 AM
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
Henry Rollins
Sam.Willow
04-27-23, 10:50 AM
“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”
Please witness the Democrat Party here in the United States for reference.
Platapus
04-27-23, 01:04 PM
“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”
Please witness the Democrat Party here in the United States for reference.
Or the GOP
Or any political party.
Platapus
04-27-23, 01:05 PM
I would not mind becoming President of the United States if I did not first have to become a politician.
Jimbuna
04-27-23, 01:21 PM
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde
Markus
Sam.Willow
04-28-23, 07:28 AM
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” Thomas Sowell
Jimbuna
04-28-23, 10:59 AM
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
– Wayne Gretzky
Markus
Jimbuna
04-29-23, 11:13 AM
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson I
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
– Albert Einstein
Markus
Jimbuna
04-30-23, 05:16 AM
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Markus
Sam.Willow
05-01-23, 06:10 AM
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”– Thomas Sowell
Jimbuna
05-01-23, 08:37 AM
I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart.
Peter A. Levine
Jimbuna
05-02-23, 11:50 AM
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
Monty Don
Regret is a teacher, whispering life’s lessons through the echoes of our past.
– Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-03-23, 07:33 AM
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius
Jimbuna
05-04-23, 08:27 AM
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
Shekhar Kapur
Love yourself as if you are the greatest masterpiece in the universe, for you are a unique work of art.
Unknown Author
Markus
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
– William James
Markus
Jimbuna
05-05-23, 05:56 AM
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Tom Robbins
Let the seeds of ambition take root in the fertile soil of your heart, and watch as your dreams grow into a magnificent forest of success.
– Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-06-23, 05:37 AM
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
– Princess Diana
Markus
Jimbuna
05-07-23, 10:16 AM
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. Clinton
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
– Walter Elliot
Markus
Jimbuna
05-08-23, 06:22 AM
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.
– William E. Gladstone
Markus
Jimbuna
05-09-23, 07:16 AM
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike
Jimbuna
05-10-23, 09:55 AM
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
Boy George
Life is too short to stick to the script, be spontaneous and let the magic unfold.
– Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-11-23, 06:00 AM
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
Marilyn Ferguson
Just as the seed must brave the darkness before it blossoms, so must we journey through trials to achieve personal growth.
Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-12-23, 12:25 PM
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
Lee Hsien Loong
Each breath we take is a brushstroke on the canvas of our existence; life is our masterpiece, precious in its complexity and transient beauty.
- Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-13-23, 05:06 AM
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson I
Sam.Willow
05-13-23, 07:02 AM
The American dream belongs to all of us. You must understand that American Dream belongs to all of us because the American Dream belongs to all of us. The importance of the American Dream belonging to us is amazing. I love that the American Dream belongs to all of us.
Kamala Harris
After reading this we are all a little dumber than we were before we read it.
Man conquers the world by conquering himself. Zeno of Citium
(Founder of Stoicism)
Markus
Jimbuna
05-14-23, 10:40 AM
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
Steve Albini
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
– Washington Irving
Markus
Jimbuna
05-15-23, 11:37 AM
I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart.
Peter A. Levine
The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be so that you can create a better world.
– Ashley Rickards
Markus
Jimbuna
05-16-23, 09:39 AM
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
Monty Don
The path to triumph is paved with setbacks, but with unwavering determination, we can turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones
- Unknown Author
Markus
em2nought
05-16-23, 05:10 PM
“Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity,” well that motto is apparently complete and utter B.S. :03:
Jimbuna
05-17-23, 07:52 AM
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
– Epicurus
Markus
Jimbuna
05-18-23, 05:46 AM
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
Platapus
05-18-23, 02:37 PM
Always tell your daughter that you love her
Otherwise someone who doesn't will
And she will believe them.
Acceptance is a beautiful thing. When you accept yourself, flaws and all, you are free to be your authentic self and embrace life’s infinite possibilities.
– Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-19-23, 12:51 PM
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
Traveling in an RV is not about the destination, but the journey. It’s about breaking free from the mundane and embracing the unexpected.
-Unknown
Markus
Jimbuna
05-20-23, 01:29 PM
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; learn from it, but don’t live in it.
- Unknown Author
Markus
Jimbuna
05-21-23, 11:43 AM
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Wine is bottled poetry.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Markus
Jimbuna
05-22-23, 12:27 PM
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson I
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
– John Muir
Markus
Jimbuna
05-23-23, 11:50 AM
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
Taking care of myself doesn’t mean ‘me first,’ it means ‘me, too.
– L.R. Knost
Markus
Jimbuna
05-24-23, 07:16 AM
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
Virat Kohli
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
Markus
Eisenwurst
05-24-23, 05:50 PM
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
Vincent Van Gogh - Letters to his brother.
Jimbuna
05-25-23, 04:33 AM
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
Zig Ziglar
“Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.”
– Kevin Heath
Markus
Jimbuna
05-26-23, 06:34 AM
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
Doris Lessing
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
– Lewis B. Smedes
Markus
Otto Harkaman
05-26-23, 03:44 PM
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
— Plato
Jimbuna
05-27-23, 03:38 AM
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell
Tango589
05-27-23, 03:30 PM
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There’s a difference between being tired and being weary. The former implies a temporary state, the latter a condition of the spirit.
– Unknown
Markus
Jimbuna
05-28-23, 06:12 AM
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
“Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.”
– Khloe Kardashian
Markus
Jimbuna
05-29-23, 10:22 AM
We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
Hannah Gadsby
Aktungbby
05-29-23, 10:36 AM
"If you are depressed, you are living in the past; if you are anxious, you are living in the future; in you are at peace you are living in the present...."-Confucius
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Markus
Aktungbby
05-29-23, 11:25 PM
...one recurring aspect of growing old is discovering how many things seem to come in a "childproof" container...:timeout::hmmm::doh::damn:
Jimbuna
05-30-23, 01:20 PM
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
Boy George
“Never regret anything that made you smile.”
– Mark Twain
Markus
Aktungbby
05-30-23, 11:58 PM
A flute with no holes is not a flute; a donut with no holes is a danish. -Zen philosopher
Jimbuna
05-31-23, 06:32 AM
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato
The end of May brings an end to the innocent laughter of spring, but only to pave the way for the vibrant symphony of summer.
– Charlotte B. Summers
Markus
Jimbuna
06-01-23, 11:19 AM
It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.
Joko Widodo
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha
Markus
Jimbuna
06-02-23, 07:24 AM
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet
June carries a basket full of sunshine, spreading it generously, a philanthropist of light.
– Anonymous
Markus
Jimbuna
06-03-23, 09:03 AM
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
Francis of Assisi
Don’t glance at the shadows of the past; they cannot touch the sunrise of your future.
– Anonymous
Markus
Jimbuna
06-04-23, 12:51 PM
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson
Jimbuna
06-05-23, 01:08 PM
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
True prosperity lies in the richness of experiences, the depth of gratitude, and the pursuit of your passions. So open your heart to the endless possibilities, believe in your own potential, and let your spirit soar towards a life of abundant prosperity.
-Anonymous
Markus
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
Meister Eckhart
Markus
Jimbuna
06-06-23, 01:13 PM
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
Paul Greengrass
The quality of our breath reflects the quality of our lives.
– Esther Gokhale
Markus
Eisenwurst
06-06-23, 06:17 PM
"Now the real good thing about meeting the President of The United States is the food".
Forrest Gump.
Jimbuna
06-07-23, 09:44 AM
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander
The universe does not care about our existence. It is up to us to care about ourselves.
– Lawrence M. Krauss
Markus
Jimbuna
06-08-23, 01:24 PM
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
Markus
Texas Red
06-08-23, 10:21 PM
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson is a wise man. He's an excellent song-writer, too. One of my favorites, in fact.
Jimbuna
06-09-23, 11:24 AM
Kris Kristofferson is a wise man. He's an excellent song-writer, too. One of my favorites, in fact.
Rgr that :salute:
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
– Tibetan Proverb
Markus
Jimbuna
06-10-23, 06:39 AM
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall
The ink of secrecy often writes the most compelling stories.
– Anonymous
Markus
Aktungbby
06-11-23, 01:26 AM
Why are you unhappy? Because 99% of everything you think and everything you do is for yourself, and there isn't one. -Wei Wu Wei
Jimbuna
06-11-23, 12:55 PM
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope
Passion is the fire that burns within your soul when everything else seems cold.
– Rumi
Markus
Jimbuna
06-12-23, 12:52 PM
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
– Bob Bitchin
Markus
Jimbuna
06-13-23, 08:33 AM
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
John Paul Jones
Platapus
06-13-23, 04:13 PM
Instead of looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, turn on your own light.
“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”
– Miles Conwell
Markus
Jimbuna
06-14-23, 08:17 AM
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
David Whyte
Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Jimbuna
06-15-23, 09:18 AM
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
William Law
“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”
– David Goggins
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Sam.Willow
06-15-23, 07:30 PM
Calling someone privileged because they are white.
Is judging someone on the color of their skin...
The Liberal Hivemind
Jimbuna
06-16-23, 11:25 AM
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.
W. S. Merwin
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06-16-23, 03:27 PM
“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”
– David Goggins
MarkusThat doesn't apply to longhaul trukkin'!:hmmm::oops::Kaleun_Sleep::dead:
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter Drucker
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Jimbuna
06-17-23, 07:37 AM
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
– Ezra Taft
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Jimbuna
06-18-23, 12:28 PM
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
Francis of Assisi
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
– Chuang Tzu
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Jimbuna
06-19-23, 09:46 AM
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
John Paul Jones
Jimbuna
06-20-23, 05:55 AM
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Henry Petroski
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
– Sebastian Stan
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The greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
– Cindy Lew
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Jimbuna
06-21-23, 07:05 AM
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
– James Baldwin
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Jimbuna
06-22-23, 01:07 PM
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper
Jimbuna
06-23-23, 06:58 AM
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
– Confucius
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Jimbuna
06-24-23, 04:54 AM
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
– Rumi
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Jimbuna
06-25-23, 09:19 AM
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald
Aktungbby
06-25-23, 10:11 AM
Speaking ill of others is a dishonest way of praising oneself.-Will Durant
Aktungbby
06-25-23, 10:16 AM
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
– Rumi
Markus...at 72, shot twice, stabbed once, bit a few times, and catscratched often...I tend 2 B a little tightly wound up myself!:03:
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Jimbuna
06-26-23, 04:23 AM
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord Byron
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
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Jimbuna
06-27-23, 07:29 AM
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
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06-27-23, 12:40 PM
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes...particularly when 'fomenting' political unrest..!:shucks::oops::dead:
Storms make trees take deeper roots. Let the challenges in life anchor you to your purpose and nourish your growth.
- Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
06-28-23, 09:13 AM
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis
Jimbuna
06-29-23, 08:03 AM
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Arthur Helps
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
– Sylvester Stallone
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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Jimbuna
06-30-23, 06:37 AM
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- Albert Einstein
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Jimbuna
07-01-23, 11:08 AM
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
Passion is the inner fire that refuses to be extinguished, even in the face of obstacles. Nurture it, and it will guide you towards your dreams.
- Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
07-02-23, 11:38 AM
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As July unfolds, it reminds us to slow down, bask in the warmth of the sun, and embrace the joy of simply being.
- Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
07-03-23, 05:16 AM
It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.
Ciara
Life is good when you realize that every day is a fresh start, full of endless possibilities.
- Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
07-04-23, 08:13 AM
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
- Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
07-05-23, 01:00 PM
Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey
Jimbuna
07-06-23, 05:54 AM
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
Challenges are stepping stones to success. Each time you stumble, use it as an opportunity to gather wisdom, regain your footing, and pick yourself up.
- Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
07-07-23, 07:10 AM
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo
Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Jimbuna
07-08-23, 05:50 AM
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland
Today is the trampoline that propels you towards a brighter tomorrow. Jump, soar, and seize its boundless potential.
– Unknown Author
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Jimbuna
07-09-23, 07:57 AM
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
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07-09-23, 10:44 AM
Unfortunately all mine are on my sasquatched backside...not my head!
When you take a positive action a positive feeling generally follows it, which is then most likely followed by another positive action and the upward spiral continues.
- Cyd Casados, The Daily Action Plan
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Jimbuna
07-10-23, 06:17 AM
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
– William Shakespeare
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fireftr18
07-10-23, 07:46 PM
When you take a positive action a positive feeling generally follows it, which is then most likely followed by another positive action and the upward spiral continues.
- Cyd Casados, The Daily Action Plan
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Funny how it works the opposite way the same.
:Kaleun_Salute:
Jimbuna
07-11-23, 10:05 AM
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
Buddha
Survivors are not just the strongest; they are the ones who refuse to give up when the odds are against them.
– Anonymous
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Jimbuna
07-12-23, 07:04 AM
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
When you travel, remember that you’re not just a viewer but a part of the world you’re exploring.
– Anonymous
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Jimbuna
07-13-23, 05:28 AM
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- Steve Jobs
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Jimbuna
07-14-23, 06:13 AM
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.”
– Lynn Johnston
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Jimbuna
07-15-23, 05:42 AM
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
Gary Hamel
“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Jimbuna
07-16-23, 08:53 AM
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.
Wayne Shorter
“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”
- Dan Harper
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