“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
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Wise Quotes — page 212 of 916
“You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.”
“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think”
“[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.”
“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”
“The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.”
“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”
“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”
“The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.”
“This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.”
“Only the fools are certain and assured.”
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
“Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.”
“It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.”
“If you don't know what to play, play nothing.”
“The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.”
“That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.”
“What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.”
“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.”
“Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.”