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Thursday, May 21, 2015

25 Amazing Scraps About Wisdom

1. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." —Helen Keller

2. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited
for, it is a thing to be achieved." —William Jennings Bryan

3. "The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand." —Irene C. Kassorla

4. "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all
Mankind." —Emily P. Bissell

5. "The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get
someone else to pay you for doing it." —Katherine Whilehaen

6. "The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials." —Confucius

7. "Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray." —Sai Baba

8. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life and don't let the noise
of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to
become." —Steve Jobs

9. "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when
you die, the world cries and you rejoice." —Cherokee Expression

10. "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much
we give, but how much love we put in the giving." —Mother Teresa

11. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." –
George Bernard Shaw

12. "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for." –John A. Shedd

13. "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending." —Carl Bard

14. "Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The
more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission." —Rudolph
Steiner

15. "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything." —Samuel
Johnson

16. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." —Mahatma Ghandi

17. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." —George Bernard
Shaw

18. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." —
Elizabeth Bibesco

19. "The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the
door to change." —Will Garcia

20. "Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment." —Tao Te Ching

21. "The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period
in one's life." —Dalai Lama

22. "When there is love in your heart, everything outside of you also becomes lovable." —
Veeresh

23. "If you want to change the world as you desire, first of all start from changing yourself." -- Varun Munjal

24. "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make
them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our
personal experience." —Johann von Goethe

25. "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." —Anais Nin

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