Visdom

“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward”
― Fridtjof Nansen

“You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.”
― Steven D. Woodhull

Thomas A. Edison
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

Jenny Han
“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”
― Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer

Jaeda DeWalt
“They are called, «SELF-worth» and «SELF-esteem» for a reason… we can’t let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“Frustration is the result of failed expectations.”
― Stuart Kidder

Jaeda DeWalt
“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it’s time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

50 Cent
“You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I’ll break yo face.”
― 50 Cent

E.A. Bucchianeri
“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Jeannette Walls
“I feel like I failed,» I said. «Don’t beat yourself up,» Jim said. «She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don’t mean she turned out wrong.”
― Jeannette Walls

Vera Nazarian
“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…

Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?

Well, here’s the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.

Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.

Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.

Wisdom is like gossip. Except it’s the good kind.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Madeline Miller
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of of mortal inventions. «No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.» «But what if he is your friend?» Achilles has asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. «Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?»
«You ask a question that philosophers argue over,» Chiron had said. H is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger in someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?»
We hd been silent. We were 14 and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are 27, they still feel too hard
He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis I cannot save them all. I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“And you’d think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn’t. It just- it just makes them dead.”
― Aksel Lian

“And you’d think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn’t. It just- it just makes them dead.”
― Joe Walker

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