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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Lonely, Philosophy

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Witty, Clever, Knowledge

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

  Guy Finley

  Understanding, Limits, Possibility

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• Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Encouraging, Thankful, Encouragement

  Rhonda Byrne (2006). “The Secret”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Positive, Knowledge

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Passion, Way, Bears

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

  Knowledge, Thought Provoking, Understanding

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

  David McCullough

  Famous Motivational, Mountain, World

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

  Bayard Taylor

  Riches, Wealth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.129

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• Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

  Jane Wells

  Islamic, Littles, Compromise

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• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Happiness, Thank You

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

  Rabia Basri

  Spiritual, Religion, Paradise

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Adversity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

  Josh Billings

  Learning, Sleep, Library

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• The trouble is you think you have time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Time, Buddhist

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Being Free, Poverty, Endure

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Journey, Who I Am

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  Dan Rather

  Creeks, Alligators, Taunting

  "Sign-off" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2005.

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• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Humility, Men

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