Wisdom Quotes

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Quotations for a variety of occasions: shed light, help keep perspective, inspire, energize, or just make me think. Sorted by topic and author.

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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

- Tara Brach

It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

- Jesse Jackson

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Marshall Ferdinand Foch

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It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

- Ralph Ellison

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

- Rosa Parks

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

- Carter G. Woodson

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- T. S. Eliot

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

- William Blake

As we live and as we are, Simplicity -- with a capital "S" -- is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder

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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. (The Wizard of Oz)

- Frank L. Baum

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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

- Sinclair Lewis

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I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

This stock-market thing was a great game, but, after all, everybody just can't live on gambling. Somebody has to do some work.

- Will Rogers

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