"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two."

Cheever, John on wisdom   

"Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance."

Unknown, Source on wisdom   

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Zinn, Jon Kabat on learning
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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."

Havner, Vance on bores and boredom
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"We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies."

Temple, Sir William on atheism   

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials."

Gressett, J. K. on trials
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"Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God."

Myers, Cecil on marriage
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"Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on illusion
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails."

Unknown, Source on control
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"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections."

Pilgrim, Peace on vision
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"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

Rogers, Carl on life
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"Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction."

Unknown, Source on god
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"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

Mann, Louis L. on vision   

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]"

Bible on pain
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"Fellowship with God means warfare with the world."

Fuller, Charles E. on fellowship
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"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on prayer
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"In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri on god
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Caplan, Mortimer on laziness
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"The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves."

Unknown, Source on correction   

"Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well."

Forrestal, James V. on courage   

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"Don't go through life, grow through life."

Butterworth, Eric on growth
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Redmoon, Ambrose on courage
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"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."

Gibson, Althea on cooperation
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"The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist."

Novalis on art   

"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy."

Gibran, Kahlil on work
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it."

Unknown, Source on purpose
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