#dom

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#bear #better #curse #denounce #freedom

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. ↗

— Jane Wyman

#being #brotherhood #every #every time #human

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#democracy #expectations #fail #freedom #nation

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#experience #wisdom #youth #age

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#practicality #wisdom #age

There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#age

It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisdom is all head and no heart.Behold, brother, you are being crushed under the weight of your head. You are dying of old age while you are yet a child. ↗

— James Stephens

#wisdom #age

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table. "It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God. ↗

— R.A. Dick

#living-a-full-life #wisdom #age

Love is the divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them. The Sufis of all ages have been known for their beautiful personality. It does not mean that among them there have not been people with great powers, wonderful powers and wisdom. But beyond all that, what is most known of the Sufis is the human side of their nature: that tact which attuned them to wise and foolish, to poor and rich, to strong and weak -- to all. They met everyone on his own plane, they spoke to everyone in his own language. What did Jesus teach when he said to the fishermen, 'Come hither, I will make you fishers of men?' It did not mean, 'I will teach you ways by which you get the best of man.' It only meant: your tact, your sympathy will spread its arms before every soul who comes, as mother's arms are spread out for her little ones. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#age

Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#confidence #wisdom #age