Most things will seem important and urgent. You become wise when you realize most are not.
-Maxime Lagacé
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
-Stephen Chbosky
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t go in and hide; don’t come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.
-Zhuangzi
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
-Paulo Coelho
You can never plan the future by the past.
-Edmund Burke
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
-Denis Waitley
It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
-Ambrose
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
-Harper Lee
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.
-Latin Proverb
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
-Gautama Buddha
Stay centered by accepting whatever happens to you. This is the ultimate.
-Zhuangzi
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
-Francis Bacon
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-Mahatma Gandhi
When a situation is within your control, take action. When a situation is outside your control, make preparations.
-James Clear
Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.
-Wally Amos
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
-Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge wants to talk. Wisdom wants to listen.
-Haemin Sunim
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.
-Gary Keller
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan
Ignore what won’t impact your life.
-@orangebook_
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
-George C. Marshall
Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.
-Paulo Coelho
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
-Lao Tzu
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
-Harold Kushner
There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.
-Stephen Covey
Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.
-Publilius Syrus
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
-Ming-Dao Deng
Great doubts, deep wisdom. Small doubts, little wisdom.
-Chinese proverb
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
-Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
-Thomas J. Watson
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
-Albert Einstein
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Life is like a roller coaster / you will have your ups and your downs / you just need to get over it.
-Angelina Sabia
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
-Richard Branson
The wise man knows it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
-Chuang Tzu
Life is given to us / we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.
-Germany Kent
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
The intelligent come to know the world. The wise come to know themselves.
-James Pierce
The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.
-Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.
-E.A. Bucchianeri
A wise person says well what he or she thinks, but is wary of himself or herself and what he or she says.
-Lamine Pearlheart