Words of Wisdom

Here is a thread where you can post your words of wisdom.

The Acquisition of power is paramount to all other endeavors: pleasure is a tool of the powerful or a master of a fool.

That is a real good quote. The quote I've lived by is "Mind over mater". However when I was about 9 years old, having gone through all the crap with an abusive control freak of a dad, my mom told me that the wounds would heal over time and I might forgive my dad. To which I replied, "When it comes to what I've been through, you can forgive, but you can never forget".
It blew her, my stepdad, and the rest of my family away. I thought little of it, as my innocence only of being a child dealing with problems that I shouldn't have had to deal with, only made me tell the truth and what I felt, and still feel at the time. Now at my age of 22, my mom still quotes me to family and friends and they are astonished when they hear who's mouth these words came from. And when I think about it, I have forgiven, but have not forgotten.
Another quote I love is,
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness".
Norman Cousins
US editor & essayist (1915 - 1990)

*points to sig*

Open your eyes or shut your mouth.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Always maintain your dignity=if you must resort to savagry then make appear as the highest of noble politeness, hide you blade behind a most soothing smile.

Pride can be your greatest enemy: Pride can breed the Weeds of Shame which choke the Sprouts of Progress.

If you posses only street smarts, you're undesirable.
If you posses only book smarts, you're unreliable.
If you posess both, you're undeniable.

Hate me today, Love me Tomorrow.

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Life's a garden, Dig it.
Keep On, Keepin On.
(Joe Dirt)

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An eye for an eye will leave us all blind.
(Mahatma Ghandi)
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When the last man dies, for the words that he said, we shall be free.
(Garth Brooks)

Always stay focused never succumbing to the grand hypnosis of the Masses.

The world is not black and white but a spectrum of the various shades of gray.

With great power lies great responsibility.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Traditional rules, supply and demand--they're secondary. But to rise above those rules, to know when to break them, requires absolute personal commitment.

Get busy living, or get busy dying. - Tim Robbins (From the movie The Shawshank Redemption.)






-tts

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

-Van Wilder

I have always found these words of wisdom to be true, weather you believe in the bible or not, no matter, let the words sink in, they are precise, and true


“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.”

Proverbs 26:11

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

~* Pearl S. Buck *~


Wisdom

[edit on 1/5/2007 by jensouth31]

*To care is not being weak*

Asala 2007

Sentimentality is synonymous with vulnerability.

For us, the nuclear family was nuked years ago.

'Out of intense complexities, intense simplcities emerge.'

Memories fade, but a Google search never forgets.