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" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

Harry Dean Stanton

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" You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad. "

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" This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

" Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" Silence is the most powerful state. "

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" Kindness is wisdom. "

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" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. "

" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "

" If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "

" If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

" When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. "

" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

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" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness. "

Harry Dean Stanton

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. "

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" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

Mother Angelica

" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "

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