Wisdom Inc.

"Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens. And we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever".
'One Tree Hill'

"Every moment that's ever been or ever will be, is gone the instant it's begun. So life is loss. And the secret to happiness is to learn to love the moment more than you mourn the loss."

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
Einstein

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never escape it alive anyway."
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change".
Confucius

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Strong relationships are based not on the self-sacrifice in dealing with the big problems, but on the compromise in dealing with the little ones."
Mike Hutchison

"Just when you think there is no one else to disappoint you, you disappoint yourself."
Mike Hutchison

"How quickly the fabric of our lives unravels. We weave together protective tapestries of assumptions and false belief that are torn to shreds beneath the malevolent claws of reality."
Richard Paul Evans

"I have an uneasy relationship with memories, a vexed alliance with the past. Almost invariably I want to "clean it up," to excise the sad sections and leave out the parts of the story that still hurt, and in the retelling to somehow sidestep those times that, deep down, I cannot forget. If we would only tell and remember the good times, I used to think, perhaps we could draw more of them to ourselves? "Cleaning things up" is a habit you learn early, before you have a chance to ponder the extent to which it will constrain your life. It's all well and good to clean things, but when we turn to tidying up the past, whitewashing the events and people who have profoundly shaped us - all of them - we've laid our hands roughly on something priceless: the knowledge that we can walk through pleasure or pain, joy or sadness, with equal grace or clumsiness, as the case may be, that what counts is that we get through somehow. More troubling, perhaps, we've comprised the chance to walk beside the person we follow. The process of walking alongside must account for good and bad alike. Following only the good means we follow the phantom, nothing more. To find the real person, we have to be careful what we clean."
Hannah Nyala "Leave No Trace"

"There's such a thing as being too frightened to be a coward".
TV show "Cracker"

"You must decide for yourself how you should live in this world. Like a flower seeking light, we each go where we find our best sustenance. Yet in reaching out - free as we are - we have to be careful not to lose more than can ever be gained".
'Heaven's Edge'

"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich."
Henry Ford

"Your little candle may not light the room but it can light the candle next to it, which in turn can do the same, until all the candles are lighted and darkness is gone".
Ruth Smeltzer

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England [1922] 'War Shrines'

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead".
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals [1929] ch 19

"How strange and miraculous and unnerving it is to stumble accidentally on your capacity to open yourself so completely to someone else. To know that you will always feel this way and that time can have no possible effect. To watch it, like a natural wonder, like Niagara Falls, the eternal feeling rising up inside you, flowing with deafening force, glittering in the sun, even though it is of no practical use".
'Still She Haunts Me' by Katie Roiphe

"The question is, what should he have done? Because you don't judge by outcome do you? You judge by a whole plethora of other, less clearly defined things. Under the circumstances that held at the time, what was the right thing to do?"
'The Fall' by Simon Mawer

"There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give".
'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult

"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that we eat and drink and lie down and pray, or kneel at least for prayer, according to the inflexible laws of an iron formula: this immobile quality, that makes each dreadful day in the very minutest detail like its brother, seems to communicate itself to those external forces the very essence of whose existence is ceaseless change. Of seed-time or harvest, of the reapers bending over the corn, or the grape gatherers threading through the vines, of the grass in the orchard made white with broken blossoms or strewn with fallen fruit: of these we know nothing and can know nothing.
'De Profundis' by Oscar Wilde

"Confidence comes not from physical appearance, but from the presentation of physical appearance."
Paula M. Kramer

"Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones".
'Dry' by Augusten Burroughs

"Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people."
'Autobiography of a face' by Lucy Grealy

"Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them".
'Autobiography of a face' by Lucy Grealy

"The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance".
'Autobiography of a face' by Lucy Grealy

"Mistakes are inevitable, what separates a person from others is the improvement made after a mistake is realized".
Luzuko Mbane

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror".
Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

"There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they bought or could ever bring the senses."
Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

"Nothing is certain but the uncertainties. Everything is certain but the uncertainties".

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor".
Neil Gaiman