Wisdom

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within your control, and some things are not.

With great power comes great responsibility.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The true seeker looks for the truth in everyone.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

If you are told that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these.'

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Ah, fill the cup: what boots it to repeat how time is slipping underneath our feet: Unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday, why fret about them if today be sweet!

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.