The Book of life lessons

WORDS OF WISDOM

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain. ~ Miyamoto Musashi

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. ~ Frank lucas

Some people come in your life as blessings, some come in your life as lessons.
~ Mother Teresa

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
~ Buddha

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, overreacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. ~ Dalai Lama

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ~ Marcus Aurelius

He who loves to sleep and the folding of hands, poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night. ~ Proverbs 24:33-34

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~ Salvador Dali

Educating the mind without educating The heart has no education at all.
~ Aristotle

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, It's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
~ Buddha

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ~ Mark Twain

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult ~ Seneca

The truth is everyone is going to hurt you, You just have to find the worth suffering for. ~ Bob Marley

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

One man's fault is another man's lesson.
~ Maltese Proverb

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, Every man is your teacher.
~ Old saying

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
~Honore De Balzac

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ~ Aristotle

The most common form of despair is being who you are. ~ Seren Kierkegaard

What good are wings without the courage to fly? ~ Atticus

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.
~ R. Brault

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
~ Seren Kierkegaard

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
~ Pablo Picasso

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
~ Oscar Wilde

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
~ Alan watts

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. ~ Rumi

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
~ Bob Marley

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise. ~Voltaire

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. ~ Epictetus

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ~ Plutarch