Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 124
When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
Luc de Clapiers
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He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Ken Follett
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself
Harvey Fierstein
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.
Galileo Galilei
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.
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