Wise Sayings from Wisest People!

Wisest Affirmation...

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~ "Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827"


Wise Sayings from Wisest People

1. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière"


2. Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. "Robert Louis Stevenson"


3. You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. "Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960"


4. Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? "Coleman Cox"
5. Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. "Unknown Author"


6. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "Victor Hugo"


7. The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. "Plato"


8. People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. "Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827"


9. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "Theodore Roosevelt"
10. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. "Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982"


11. On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." 'Confucian Analects'


12. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. "Jimmy Johnson"
13. What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. "Samuel Johnson"


14. Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. "Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827"


15. The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. "Charles DuBois"


16. In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. "Henry Miller, The Books in My Life"


17. Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. "Mikhael Dominico"


18. Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. "Unknown Author"


19. In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. "Albert Schweitzer"


20. Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert"