Wise Words: Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead Wise Words: Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard Wise Words: Never force talent; let talent force you. ~James Lendall Basford Wise Words: Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ~Barbara Johnson Wise Words: Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams Wise Words: Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec Wise Words: Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg Wise Words: No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Wise Words: No useful man has time to go back and rub out his unfortunate foot prints. ~Author unknown, from Wise Words: Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. ~Pema Chödrön Wise Words: Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde Wise Words: Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox Wise Words: On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects Wise Words: One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepard Wise Words: One neglect makes ten regrets. ~James Lendall Basford Wise Words: One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde Wise Words: People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Wise Words: Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel Wise Words: Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Wise Words: Prize your health; prize your word; prize your reason! ~Elbert Hubbard Wise Words: Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets Wise Words: Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke Wise Words: Ruts are not made by the wheels of Destiny, but by the cart of Care... ~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander Wise Words: Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash Wise Words: See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII Wise Words: Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert Wise Words: So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht Wise Words: Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Wise Words: Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Words: Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams Wise Words: Stay quiet; refuse nothing; flowers grow only because they tranquilly allow the sun's rays to reach them. You must do the same. ~Barbara Juliane, baroness von Krüdener Wise Words: Strength will carry you through no matter how deep the valley... surrender to your strength. ~Gunda Fijnje-Nolan, September 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Wise Words: Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico, September 2010 winner of The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Wise Words: Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed Wise Words: The best things in life are not only free, they require less assembly. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Author unknown, variant of "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented" by Dennis Gabor Wise Words: The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi Wise Words: The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson Wise Words: The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato Wise Words: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman Wise Words: The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. ~William James Wise Words: The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer Wise Words: The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it. ~Andrew Matthews Wise Words: The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles Du Bos Wise Words: The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach Wise Words: The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything. ~Bill Murray Wise Words: The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart. ~William Butler Yeats Wise Words: The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison Wise Words: The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. ~Elie Wiesel, 1986 Wise Words: The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison Wise Words: The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson Wise Words: The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna Wise Words: There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber Wise Words: There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams Wise Words: There is great power in letting go, and there is great freedom in moving on. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott Wise Words: There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins Wise Words: Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare Wise Words: Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb Wise Words: To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates Wise Words: To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Words: To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb Wise Words: To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. ~Mary Oliver Wise Words: To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. ~Mary Oliver Wise Words: To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner Wise Words: Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes Wise Words: Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. ~Mike Dolan Wise Words: Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat. ~Thingsweforget.blogspot.com, #660 Wise Words: Walk lightly through life. ~Guy Finley Wise Words: Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin Wise Words: We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury Wise Words: We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James Wise Words: We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber Wise Words: What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson Wise Words: What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery Wise Words: What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: Whatever you are, try to be a good one. ~William Makepeace Thackeray Wise Words: When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in , compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Wise Words: When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith Wise Words: When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale Wise Words: When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb Wise Words: Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton Wise Words: Why be anything other than good? Why do anything other than love? ~Johnathan Dahl Wise Words: Why chase a hopeless dream? I dunno, maybe for the dream, maybe for the chase, maybe to meet another hopeless dreamer. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~Jeb Dickerson Wise Words: Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! ~Terri Guillemets Wise Words: Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha Wise Words: Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Wise Words: You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman Wise Words: You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. ~Israel Zangwill Wise Words: You cannot corner the devil by argument; he will jump over your head or between your feet. ~James Lendall Basford Wise Words: You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf Wise Words: You have to give people something to dream on. ~Jimi Hendrix Wise Words: You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs Wise Words: You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull Wise Words: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb Wise Words: Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger