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Quotes about wisdom
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Compassion is the chief and perhaps the only law of human existence.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
Some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
Judge the Russian people not by the abominations they so often commit, but by the great and holy things for which, even in their abomination, they constantly yearn.
Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled, and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, 'I am a murderer!'
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Love life more than the meaning of it.
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the great thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted.
To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.
We are each responsible to all for all.
The soul is healed by being with children.