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Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Each day, I am healthier, younger,
stronger, more comfortable,
and more joyful than the day before.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
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