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" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "

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" Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! "

William Eardley IV

" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

" Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. "

Michael D. Higgins

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

Sharon Salzberg

" 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

" We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me. "

" Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. "

Francis Quarles

" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "

" The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. "

" Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. "

" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "

" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

Jonathan Schell

" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

Michelle Bachelet

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. "

Aleister Crowley

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" 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

" I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. "

" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "

" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "

Desiderius Erasmus