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" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "
Honore de Balzac
Serve
Love
Chivalry
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" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "
Radhanath Swami
Spiritual
Wisdom
Need
" Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Unity
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" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "
Sophocles
Goes
Words
Fewest
" People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. "
J. Michael Straczynski
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Past
Time
" One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. "
Honore de Balzac
Marriage
Soul
Anniversary
" Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. "
Owen Feltham
Soul
Perspective
Meditation
" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "
David Icke
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Mighty
Today
" 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
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Life
Struggle
" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "
Julia Glass
Humor
Passion
Live
" There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. "
James Dobson
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Day
Determination
" When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. "
Sara Teasdale
Wise
Youth
Wisdom
" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "
George Eliot
Wisdom
Half
Laughter
" You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. "
Ben Carson
You
God
Know
" The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. "
George MacDonald
Body
Process
Logic
" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "
Lord Byron
Life
Know
Wisdom
" I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope. "
L. Ron Hubbard
Looks
Wisdom
Know
" You can observe a lot by watching. "
Yogi Berra
You
Watching
Observe
" Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. "
Honore de Balzac
Possible
Power
Action
" The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. "
Honore de Balzac
Great
Thought
Life
" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "
John Henry Newman
Never
Great
Made
" Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. "
Friedrich Schiller
Fate
Wisdom
Full
" Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. "
Honore de Balzac
Study
Kind
Lends
" A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. "
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Flow
Words
Sure
" A mother who is really a mother is never free. "
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Who
Free
Mother
" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "
Kenny Rogers
Lose
You
Wisdom
" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "
Ethel Barrymore
Wisdom
You
Day
" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "
Francis Bacon
Men
Wisdom
Wise
" When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. "
Honore de Balzac
Morals
Vice
Relaxed
" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "
George Santayana
Disillusionment
Wisdom