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" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

Doris Lessing

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" As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others. "

" We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. "

" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "

Marcel Proust

Journey

Wisdom

" Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. "

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "

" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Perfect

Wisdom

Uncle

" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "

" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. "

Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom

Where

" I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. "

" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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People

" The soul's joy lies in doing. "

" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. "

" We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. "

" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom

Walk

Should

" I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart. "

" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "

" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

" Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom

Mind

Words

" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "

" Wisdom outweighs any wealth. "

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

" There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. "