A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake,
on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
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“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato quotes
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“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.”
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
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“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”
Albert Einstein quotes
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“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Sandra Carey quotes
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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr quotes (American theologian, 1892-1971)
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Pops01 Antonio Porchia quotes (Italian poet, 1886-1968)
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”
Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)
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“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?”
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“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.”
John A. Simone, Sr. quotes
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“The highest form of wisdom is kindness”
The Talmud quotes
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan quotes (American ichthyologist, educator, writer b.1851)
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“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
Gian Carlo Menotti quotes
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“We must become the change we want to see.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
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“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
Bruce Lee quotes (American Actor and martial arts expert. Born in San Francisco, California, USA 1940-1973)
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.”
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“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence”
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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way"). 600 BC-531 BC)
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“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
Swami Sivananda quotes (Indian Yoga master, Physician, Monk and Founder of The Divine Life Society, 1887-1963)
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“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise”
Sara Teasdale quotes
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“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
the_write_one Don Williams, Jr. quotes (American Novelist and Poet, b.1968)
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
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“Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there”
santiz
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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”
Epicurus quotes (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)
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“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”
Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
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“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”
Louis L'Amour quotes (American writer, best-selling author, 1908-1988)
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“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion”
Chinese Proverbs quotes
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“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.”
Bill Cosby quotes (American Actor, Comedian and Producer. b.1937, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
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We can stay young by focusing on a dream instead
of on a regret.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward
dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older
one climbs with surprising strides.
- George Sand
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If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child,
it usually works out pretty well.
- Black Hawk
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
- E. M. Forester
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The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.
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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your
state of mind.
- Wayne Dyer
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret
nothing.
- Somerset Maugham
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Life appears to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or
registering wrong.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts.
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To teach is to touch a life forever.
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Put your interest in the future, because you're going to spend the
rest of your life there.
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Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
- John Maxwell
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Change brings freshness.
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in
escaping from the old ones.
- John Maynard Kynes
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
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What you think of yourself is much more important than what
others think of you.
- Seneca
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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness;
her state is like the things above the moon, always clear
and serene.
- Michael de Montaigne
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure
future ones.
- Seneca
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Freedom is the ability not to care what the other person thinks.
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I've learned that the more possessions I acquire, the less free
I feel.
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Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by
fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and
you'll unleash a torrent of creativity.
- Alex Osborne
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing it
touches and hurts the one who is possessed by it more
than the one against whom it is directed.
- Claredon
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without
brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
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Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life.
Jack Balousek
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There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist
another human being - to help someone to succeed.
- Alan Loy McGinnus
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happening
all at once.
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To see what's in front of one's nose requires a constant
struggle.
- George Orwell
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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Have patience with all things, but especially with yourself.
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You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in
in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
- Brian Tracy
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The whole process of mental, spiritual, and material riches
may be summed up in one word - gratitude.
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Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts.
- Tim Connor
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Comic Strip Quotations presents wisdom in a very unique and fun way.
I'm sure you'll enjoy his playful cartoon characters which he has combined
with profound thoughts. They're very artistically done.
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Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power.
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Prosperity is a life experience in health, wealth and love. You are
prosperous when you have the resources to do what you
truly want to do at the time you want to do it.
- Scott Sherman
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A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he
receives.
- Old Proverb
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Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong
tone of voice.
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a
hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all
you have - get understanding.
- Proverbs 4:7
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What a new face courage puts on everything.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and
hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience
of waking up one more day.
- Jack Smith
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help
them to become what they are capable of being.
- Goethe
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All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a
good chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real
strength.
- Frances de Sales
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Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say,
and (b) not saying it.
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The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation
or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic.
Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you
along the path of human excellence.
- Tony Robbins
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The best cure for anger is delay.
- Seneca, A.D. 63
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Michael Pritchard
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There is no wealth but life.
- John Ruskin
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When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to
check your yardstick.
- Bill Lemley
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There is no security in life. There is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge
me when I've said enough.
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Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe
the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow
themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the
way they are.
- Wayne Dyer
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Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice"
is yearning to be heard.
- Susan Jeffers
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True freedom is an inner thing. It is a state of mind. It is a
deliberate exercise of choice. Thus, if we think we are
bound by external forces, we are deceiving ourselves.
It is our willing acquiescence to these outer demands
that imprisons. Free yourself today. Take control of
your thoughts.
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No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for
anything else.
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I am silent.
- Publilius Syrus
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them,
since you cannot even make yourself as you wish to be.
- T. A. Kempkis
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. Don't complain.
- Maya Angelou
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You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the
whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious
energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable.
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The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
- Oprah
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Wisdom is realizing there is a gift or a lesson in everything that life
brings . . . therefore every experience can help us grow and become wiser
Wisdom is also about honoring people and caring about their rights and
it is reflected in the courtesy with which we treat others. We hope these
wisdom quotes have been inspirational for you.
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