Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-Epicurus
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
-Jodi Picoult
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it, if you are sick you should not take it.
-Henry Ford