wisdom

By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius 

can't find

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

truth

 

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

illusion

 

The desire to be loved is the last illusion: Give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

asylum

 

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

destroy

 

To destroy war, destroy patriotism.

Leo Tolstoy

live

 

I live in my dreams...that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Hermann Hess

tolerance

 

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

poison

 

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Adam Smith

suffers

 

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But the silence of good people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

compassion

 

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

arise

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

changes

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Frida Kahlo

words

 

...and the time has come to say the words we want to hear.

David Lynch

dancing

 

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

everyone

 

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.

Paulo Coelho

life

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

listen

 

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

price

 

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

contribute

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw