Wisdom Quotes

Happiness is a choice!

"We cannot become who we need to be by remaining who we are."

It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.

I can live without many things. But, deprived of a medium with which to create, I would fall apart. If you understand that, you will understand me.

If you're not strange, you're not weird. If you're not weird, you're not funny. if you're not funny, you're boring.

And who wants to be boring?

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”

Good judgement comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgement. If things are going well that means you are learning a lot and things will go a lot better next time.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the Universe

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene — and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. … Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time

Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I think that having 20-20 hindsight vision gives us an incredible competitive advantage, and like many advantages, they will only serve those with the presence of mind to use them.

Being able to be with small children teaches us how to deal with adults who act like babies.

A psychic can tap into the 95% of our brains we can't see.