Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 16

When you are content to be simply yourself and don''t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

Don''t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Lord, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

If I were asked to enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the list... If I can''t give a child a better reason for studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there.

Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos.

Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and deeper it sinks into the mind.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Yesterday is but today''s memory, and tomorrow is today''s dream.

Didn''t you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

If we don''t know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

If you never tell someone something, don''t expect them to know.

Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything''s different.

The degree of one''s emotions varies inversely with one''s knowledge of the facts.

You can''t control who you like and you can''t control the people who like you.

It isn''t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it''s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

First, then, a woman will, or won''t,--depend on''t;
If she will do''t, she will; and there''s an end on''t.
But, if she won''t, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way we treat each other as human beings, not because of laws, but out of sincerity and generosity.

If you can''t control the wind, adjust your sail.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The quickest way to receive love is to give love; The fastest way to lose love is too hold it too tightly; In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Children have never been very good at listening to adults but they have never failed to imitate them.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.