#wisdom

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ↗

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. ↗

— Michael A. Singer

#experience-mistakes-wisdom #experiences #growth #inspirational #life-lessons

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#alone #also #anticipate #avoids #businessman

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#encourage #how #i #inner #into

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#everything #wanting #win #winning

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ↗

— Horace

#adversity #bad #bad times #change #fears

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ↗