Statuses and statements about life. Wise statuses with meaning

The collection contains sayings of sages about life and wise sayings about the lives of famous thinkers of mankind:

• Life is a gift, appreciate it...
• I want to live so that I can think and suffer. A. Pushkin
• What is more valuable - a glorious name or life? What is smarter - life or wealth? What is more painful - to achieve or to lose? This is why great passions inevitably lead to great losses. And indefatigable accumulation turns into a huge loss. Know when to stop and you won't have to feel ashamed. Know how to stop - and you will not encounter dangers and you will be able to live a long time. Lao Tzu

• Prosperity, misfortune, poverty, wealth, joy, sadness, squalor, contentment are different phenomena of one historical drama in which people rehearse their roles for the edification of the world. Kozma Prutkov
• Be who you want to be...
• A stormy life is tempting for extraordinary minds, mediocrity does not find joy in it: in all their actions they are like machines. B. Pascal
• A person who is limited in heart and thoughts tends to love what is limited in life. One whose vision is limited cannot see beyond the length of one cubit on the road he is walking on or on the wall he is leaning against with his shoulder. Gibran Kahlil Gibran
• In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom lies the highest justice of life. Leonardo da Vinci
• The cup of life is beautiful! What stupidity it is to be indignant at her just because you see her bottom. Jules Renan
• To see all things in God, to make one's life a movement towards the ideal, to live with gratitude, concentration, gentleness and courage: this is the amazing point of view of Marcus Aurelius. Henri Amiel
• A person can have two basic behaviors in life: he either rolls or climbs. Vladimir Soloukhin
• Everything that happens to us leaves one mark or another in our lives. Everything is involved in making us who we are. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• Only participation in the existence of other living beings reveals the meaning and basis of one’s own existence. M. Buber
• Only that which is devoid of a strong grain of life and which, therefore, is not worth living, perishes in the stream of time. V. Belinsky
• Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning. Albert Einstein
• A day is never too long for a busy person! Let's extend our lives! After all, both its meaning and its main feature are activity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
• The meaning of life is in the beauty and strength of striving for goals, and it is necessary that every moment of existence has its own high goal. Maksim Gorky
• The only happiness in life is constant striving forward. Emile Zola
• Strong life shocks heal minor fears. O. Balzac
• You really only live when you take advantage of the goodwill of others. I. Goethe
• Let your deeds be great, as you would like to remember them in your declining years. Marcus Aurelius
• Life is a trap, and we are mice; others manage to pick the bait and get out of the trap, but most die in it, and they barely sniff the bait. Silly comedy, damn it. V. Belinsky
• Constant work is the law of both art and life. Honore de Balzac
• Life is not a holiday, not a chain of pleasures, but work, in which sometimes a lot of sorrow and a lot of doubts are hidden. S. Nadson
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  The true mirror of our way of thinking is our life. Michel de Montaigne
• Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. J. Labruyère
• The basis of our satisfaction with life is the feeling of our usefulness Charles William Eliot
• Life is a duty, even if it were a moment. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• It is necessary that each person find for himself the opportunity to live a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of each day. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
• Life is an almost continuous chain of personal discoveries. G. Hauptmann
• There is no poetry in a serene and blissful life! You need something to move your soul and burn your imagination. Denis Vasilievich Davydov
• Life is an alternation of all sorts of combinations; you need to study them, follow them in order to remain in an advantageous position everywhere.
• Don't waste your life on doubts and fears. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life is not in vain for people who have awakened at least some strong thought... Beautiful sayings about the life of A. Herzen
• Our life is a consequence of our thoughts; it is born in our heart, it is created by our thoughts. If a person speaks and acts with a good thought, joy follows him like a shadow that never leaves. "Dhammapada"
• Our life is a struggle. Euripides
• Finding your way, finding out your place - this is everything for a person, this means for him to become himself. V. Belinsky
• Life is not so short that there is not enough time for politeness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We find in life only what we ourselves put into it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life, like the waters of the sea, is refreshing only when it rises to heaven. Johann Richter
• People seek pleasure, rushing from side to side, only because they feel the emptiness of their life, but do not yet feel the emptiness of that new fun that attracts them. Blaise Pascal
• Life teaches only those who study it. V. Klyuchevsky
• It is easy to live for someone who is as impudent as a crow, impudent, obsessive, reckless, spoiled. But it is difficult to live for someone who is modest, who always seeks what is pure, who is impartial, cool-headed, perspicacious, whose life is pure. Buddha
• Life, why were you given to me? A. Pushkin (sayings of the sages about life)
• He who can fill every moment with deep content endlessly prolongs his life. Isolde Kurtz
• Living means doing things, not acquiring them. Aristotle
• What is the belief, so are the actions and thoughts, and what are they, so is life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
• To live means not only to satisfy the material needs of the body, but, mainly, to be aware of one’s human dignity. J Bern
• Each person is a reflection of his inner world. As a person thinks, that is how he is (in life). Marcus Tullius Cicero

• You have to live in such a way that you want to repeat it. B. Krutier
• True Light is the one that comes from within a person and reveals the secrets of the heart to the soul, making it happy and in harmony with life. Gibran Kahlil Gibran
• To live is to fight, to fight is to live. P. Beaumarchais
• Like a fable, so life is valued not for its length, but for its content. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
• To live means to feel and think, to suffer and to bliss, any other life is death. V. Belinsky
• The shortest expression of the meaning of life can be this: the world moves and improves. The main task is to contribute to this movement, submit to it and cooperate with it. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• A life that leaves no lasting traces is erased with every step forward. A. Herzen
• Whoever wants to accept the meaning of life as an external authority ends up accepting the meaning of his own arbitrariness as the meaning of life. Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov
• Human life is like iron. If you use it for business, it is erased; If you don't use it, rust eats it up. Cato the Elder
• Only he is worthy of life and freedom who goes to battle for them every day. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• Life itself is short, but when it is unhappy, it seems long. Publius Syrus
• Souls tormented by passions burn with fire. These will incinerate anyone in their path. Those without mercy are cold as ice. These will freeze everyone they meet. Those who are attached to things are like rotten water and rotten wood: the life has already left them. Such people will never be able to do good or make others happy. Hong Zichen
• Life is like games: some come to compete, others come to trade, and the happiest come to watch. Pythagoras
• The answers to the tasks given to us by life are not given in the end. Kozma Prutkov
• Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living. V. Klyuchevsky
• A person's real life begins at fifty. During these years, a person masters what true achievements are based on, acquires what can be given to others, learns what can be taught, clears what can be built on. E. Bock
• Life is constant work, and only those who understand it in a completely human way are those who look at it from this point of view. D. Pisarev
• I do not live in order to eat, but I eat in order to live. Quintilian
• Life is a school, but you shouldn’t rush to finish it. E. Meek
• You cannot lose the meaning of life for the sake of life. Decimus Junius Juvenal
• Life is what people strive most to preserve and protect least. J. Labruyère

The wisest thoughts, sayings and quotes from famous great people about the meaning of life

Express a false thought clearly and it will refute itself.
L. Vauvenargues
Everyone has stupid thoughts, but smart people don’t express them.
V. Bush

When they cannot soar with their thoughts, they resort to pompous language.
P. Buast

Nothing is more contagious than a misconception supported by a big name.
J. Buffon

It would be a great treasure to preserve good and beautiful human thoughts.
J. Delisle

Lengthy speeches are a very boring thing, and much less people listen to them.
F. Bacon

Acrimony is the irony of an evil mind.
L. Vauvenargues

Books on the topic of the day die along with the topicality.
F. Voltaire

Science freed thought, and free thought freed the people.
P. Berthelot

But everything that was written before was written for our instruction.
Apostle Paul

An overly brilliant style makes both characters and thoughts invisible.
Aristotle

So we are burning with the desire of the sages to hear the speeches.
Aristophanes

Work adds oil to the lamp of life, and thought lights it.
D. Bellers

Only the forbidden word is dangerous.
L. Berne

Thoughts are the wings of the soul.
P. Buast

Sincerity is clarity of soul; clarity is sincerity of thought.
P. Buast

Individual thoughts are like rays of light, which are not as tiring as those collected in a sheaf.
P. Buast

If you want an indestructible monument for yourself, put a good book in your soul.
P. Buast

The genius and spirit of a nation is revealed in its proverbs.
F. Bacon

Books are ships of thought, traveling on the waves of time and carefully carrying their precious cargo from generation to generation.
F. Bacon

Great thoughts come from the heart.
L. Vauvenargues

Clarity is the best decoration of truly deep thought.
L. Vauvenargues

If an aphorism needs explanation, then it is unsuccessful.
L. Vauvenargues

Stealing someone's thoughts is often more criminal than stealing someone's money.
F. Voltaire

Where a great man reveals his thoughts, there is Golgotha.
G. Heine

A person's way of thinking is his deity.
Heraclitus

By the way, people are always incomprehensible.
Heraclitus

Since ancient times, people have had wise and beautiful sayings; We should learn from them.
Herodotus

Paradox is a thought in a state of passion.
G. Hauptmann

A proverb is a mirror of the way of thinking of the people.
I. Herder

That word will not disappear completely, which is repeated by many.
Hesiod

Bold thoughts play the role of advanced checkers in the game: they die, but ensure victory.
I. V. Goethe

Every day you should listen to at least one song, look at a good picture and, if possible, read at least some wise saying.
I. V. Goethe

A condescending attitude towards stupidity is inherent in every intelligent person.
Abul Faraj

When faced with the ambiguity of a word, the mind loses strength.
T. Hobbes

He said the winged word.
Homer

Order frees thought.
R. Descartes

Beautiful expressions decorate a beautiful thought and preserve it.
V. Hugo

Brevity is pleasant when combined with clarity.
Dionysius

The thought must say everything at once - or say nothing.
W. Hellitt

Feelings are the color of thought. Without them, our thoughts are dry, lifeless outlines.
N. V. Shelgunov

Where the thought is strong, the deed is full of power.
W. Shakespeare

A well-expressed thought is always melodic.
M. Shaplan

There is no thought that has not already been expressed by someone.
Terence

To perceive the wisdom of others, you first need independent work.
L. N. Tolstoy

The word is the image of the deed.
Solon

Thought is just lightning in the night, but in that lightning is everything.
A. Poincare

The thrice murderer is the one who kills thought.
R. Rolland

The best thoughts are common property.
Seneca

People get confused in a mass of unnecessary words.
A. M. Gorky

Every person striving forward uses the wealth of the past and his time.
A. Diesterweg

It is not thoughts that need to be taught, but thinking.
I. Kant

Thought without morality is thoughtlessness, morality without thought is fanaticism.
V. O. Klyuchevsky

A person who remembers the words of the wise becomes prudent himself.
A. Kunanbaev

He controlled the flow of thoughts, and only because of that - the country...
B. Sh. Okudzhava

Following the thoughts of a great man is the most interesting science.
A. S. Pushkin

The right to use metaphors should not be a monopoly of poets; it must be presented to scientists as well.
Ya. I. Frenkel

He who thinks independently thinks more significantly and more usefully for everyone.
S. Zweig

I learned a lot from proverbs - otherwise from thinking in aphorisms.
A. M. Gorky

Many who commit the most shameful acts speak beautiful speeches.
Democritus

Deep thoughts are iron nails driven into the mind so that nothing can pull them out.
D. Diderot

The art of aphorism lies not so much in the expression of an original and deep idea, but in the ability to express an accessible and useful thought in a few words.
S. Johnson

Folk wisdom is usually expressed aphoristically.
N. A. Dobrolyubov

Great thoughts come not so much from a great mind as from a great feeling.
F. M. Dostoevsky

Proverbs... constitute the concentrated wisdom of the nation, and the person who is guided by them will not make big mistakes in his life.
N. Douglas

Morals are better expressed in short sayings than in long sermons.
K. Immerman

The wisest thoughts, sayings and quotes from famous great people about the meaning of life

A person manifests himself in his actions, and not in his thoughts, no matter how noble these thoughts may be.
T. Carlyle

There are such short sayings or proverbs that are accepted and used by everyone. Such sayings would not have passed from century to century if they did not seem true to all people.
Quintilian

A thought is bright only when it is illuminated from within with good feelings.
V. O. Klyuchevsky

The path of an aphorism most often is as follows: from direct quotation... to reinterpretation in accordance with a new creative attitude.
S. Kovalenko

The study of wisdom elevates and makes us strong and generous.
J. Komensky

True eloquence is the ability to say everything that is needed and no more than is needed.
F. La Rochefoucauld

There is grace-filled power in the consonance of living words.
M. Yu. Lermontov

You shouldn't look for deep thought in pretentious style.
G. Lichtenberg

Deep thoughts always seem so simple that we imagine we came up with them ourselves.
A. Mare

The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.
P. Merimee

He who has a skinny body puts on a lot of clothes; He who has a meager thought inflates it with words.
M. Montaigne

The sum of knowledge and memories accumulated by generations is what our civilization is. You can become its citizen only under one condition - having become acquainted with the thoughts of the generations who lived before us.
A. Maurois

Great truths are too important to be new.
S. Maugham

Follow the rule persistently, so that your words are cramped and your thoughts are spacious.
N. A. Nekrasov

A successful expression, an apt epithet, a pictorial comparison adds enormously to the pleasure that is delivered to the reader by the very content of a book or article.
D. I. Pisarev

Explanatory expressions explain dark thoughts.
K. Prutkov

It is hard to believe what enormous economies of thought can be achieved by one well-chosen word.
A. Poincare

Aphorisms are literary delicacies. Eat them in small portions, slowly and tastefully.
G. L. Ratner

Proverbs are the product of the experience of all peoples and the common sense of all centuries, translated into formulas.
R. Rivarol

Ancient wisdom bequeathed so many aphorisms that stone by stone they formed an entire indestructible wall.
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

For wisdom there is nothing more hateful than philosophizing.
Seneca

Time can do nothing to great thoughts that are as fresh now as when they first arose in the minds of their authors, many centuries ago.
S. Smiles

We are looking through the treasures of ancient wise men that they left in their writings; and if we come across something good, we borrow and consider it a great profit for ourselves.
Socrates

Aphorisms are the most phenomenal of all everyday facts of knowledge.
P. S. Taranov

The correct dosage of an aphorism: minimum words, maximum meaning.
M. Twain

Short thoughts are good because they force the serious reader to think for himself.
L. N. Tolstoy

The wisest have a rich stock of sayings. Everyone can find a lot of useful advice for life in it.
Theocritus

The enlightened mind... is made up of the minds of all previous centuries.
B. Fontenelle

A poorly expressed good thought is the same as a tastelessly dressed beautiful woman.
Yu. G. Schneider

He who thinks clearly speaks clearly.
A. Schopenhauer

The ultimate goal of eloquence is to persuade people.
F. Chesterfield

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1. Don’t complain about life - someone dreams of the kind of life you live.

2. The main rule of life is not to let yourself be broken by either people or circumstances.

3. Never show a man how much you need him. You won't see anything good in return.

4. You cannot expect from a person what is unusual for him. You don't squeeze a lemon to get tomato juice.

5. After rain, a rainbow always comes, after tears - happiness.

6. One day, completely by accident, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, and millions of roads will converge at one point.

7. What you believe in becomes your world.

8. A diamond that falls into the mud still remains a diamond, and dust that rises to the skies remains dust.

9. They don’t call, don’t write, aren’t interested - that means they don’t need it. Everything is simple and there is nothing to invent here.

10. I know people are not saints. Sins are written by fate. For me, it’s better to be honestly evil than people with false kindness!

11. Be like a lotus that is always pure and blooms even in muddy water.

12. And God grant everyone to be with someone with whom the heart does not seek others.

13. There is no better place than home, especially if there is a mother in it.

14. People constantly invent problems for themselves. Why not invent happiness for yourself?

15. It hurts when a child wants to see mom and dad, but they are not there. The rest can be lived through.

16. Happiness is nearby... Don’t invent ideals for yourself... Appreciate what you have.

17. Never lie to someone who trusts you. Never trust someone who lied to you.

18. Mom, even if she is prickly, is still the best!

19. There is no need to be afraid of distances. And far away you can love deeply, and close you can quickly part.

20. I always consider the last book I read to be the best until I take on something new.

21. We give children LIFE, and they give us MEANING!

22. A happy person is one who does not regret the past, is not afraid of the future and does not interfere in other people's lives.

23. Pain sometimes goes away, but thoughts remain.

24. How much wisdom is needed to never lose kindness!

25. Having abandoned me once, don’t interfere in my life again. Never.

26. Appreciate someone who can’t live without you. And don't chase after someone who is happy without you.

27. Remember: you attract to yourself what you believe in!

28. You can only regret one thing in life - that you never took a risk.

29. The most natural thing in this world is change. Living things cannot be frozen.

30. One wise man was asked: “What to do if someone stops loving you?”

“Take your soul and leave,” he replied.

wise quotes with meaning about life, thoughts about life, great people. Human wisdom is a deep mind, erudition, restraint, combined with life experience, understanding the meaning of what is happening. It is also the ability to help other people with advice, the ability to take the right decisions, and get out of a difficult situation.
The ability to look philosophically at the things that surround us helps us think soberly and more easily overcome life's challenges.

You should do what makes you happy. Forget about money or other traps that are considered success. If you're happy working in a village store, work. You only have one life. Karl Lagerfeld.

What makes a man rich is his heart. Bigger.

A soul that lacks wisdom is dead. But if you enrich it with teaching, it will come to life, like an abandoned land on which rain has fallen. Abul-Faraj.

This incarnation is God walking on his own earth. The human incarnation is God Himself residing in human form. Don't underestimate yourself, this form is a divine form. Therefore you must act with the fullness of divinity in you. Papaji

The meaning of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in its entirety is what we live for. Oscar Wilde.

The most important thing is not to lose heart... when it becomes too much for you, and everything gets mixed up, you can’t despair, lose patience and drag on at random. You need to unravel the problems slowly, one by one. Haruki Murakami. Norwegian forest.

Salvation does not lie in rituals, sacraments, or in the confession of this or that faith, but in a clear understanding of the meaning of one’s life. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

By sacrificing himself, a person becomes higher than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At best, he can sacrifice his only son. Somerset Maugham

...Both suffering and joy lead to knowledge. By experiencing both these aspects of manifest nature, the soul gains knowledge of the reality underlying things. Experience can be sorrowful, but it is transformed into knowledge, and knowledge is transformed into wisdom, which becomes the leader of the soul. Author: Annie Besant

Many believe that the trials of this life are certainly retribution for past sins. But is metal heated in a forge because he has sinned and must be punished? Isn't this done in order to improve the properties of the material?... - Lobsang Rampa

Living is like running through a museum. And only then do you begin to truly realize what you saw, think about it, consult books and remember - because you cannot accept it all at once. Audrey Hepburn.

If you think I'm the problem, you'll have to change me. If you understand that the problem is in you, you can change yourself, learn something and become wiser. Most people expect everyone else in the world to change, but not themselves. Robert Kiyosaki.

People find reality unsatisfactory and therefore live in a fantasy world, imagining the fulfillment of their desires. A strong personality makes these desires come true. The weak one lives in this world of hers and her fantasies are embodied in symptoms of various diseases. Sigmund Freud.

Your time is limited, don't waste it living another life. Don't get caught up in a creed that exists on other people's thinking. Don't let the views of others drown out your own inner voice. And it is very important to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you really want to do. Everything else is secondary. Author: Steve Jobs.

We make an effort to wake up and actually wake up when the dream becomes terrible and we no longer have the strength to bear it. The same must be done in life when it becomes unbearable. At such moments, one must, through the effort of consciousness, awaken to a new, higher, spiritual life. Lev Tolstoy.

If you still follow the lead of circumstances, then at least do not allow yourself to be muzzled. Yuri Tatarkin.

Your brain is like a garden that can be tended to or nurtured. You are a gardener and can grow your garden or leave it neglected. But know: you will have to reap the fruits of either your labor or your own inaction. John Kehoe. “The subconscious can do anything”

Any illness should be considered as a signal: you have somehow treated the world incorrectly. If you don't hear the signals, Life will increase the impact. - Sviyash.

A true friend is a person who will tell you everything he thinks about you and tell everyone that you are a wonderful person. Omar Khayyam.

Have you ever asked yourself the most important question: do problems really exist or are you creating them? People clutch at their misfortunes in order to prevent emptiness in themselves. Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Don't answer anyone when you're angry; don't promise anything when you're happy; never decide when you are sad. Eastern wisdom.

Desire is the driving force of the soul; a soul devoid of desires stagnates. You need to desire in order to act and act in order to be happy. Claude Adrian Helvetius

He who has contemplated the greatness of nature himself strives for perfection and harmony. Our inner world should be like this model. In a clean atmosphere everything is clean. - Honore de Balzac. Lily of the Valley.

“Whoever owns the information owns the World! » W. Churchill.

A person with a clear goal will move forward even on the worst road. A person without any goal will not advance even along the smoothest path. Thomas Carlyle.

What we are today is a consequence of our yesterday's thoughts, and today's thoughts create tomorrow's life. Life is a creation of our mind. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

Often, the reason for separation lies not in the relationship between people, but in the unresolved problems of one of them (or both), stretching from the past.
Our childhood grievances need to be given vent, and then the “children” begin to grow up and do not interfere in our personal lives. Jorge Bucay, Silvia Salinas. Love with open eyes.

Stay patient and don’t forget that everyone in this world is transitory. Paulo Coelho. Like a river.

One should not be afraid of poverty, or illness, or in general anything that is not caused by depravity and does not depend on the person himself. Aristotle.

The purpose of our earthly existence is to cultivate humanity, and all the low needs of life only serve it and should become reason, subtle feelings - art, attractions - noble freedom and beauty, motivating forces - philanthropy. Johann Gottfried Gerde

The wiser a person becomes, the less reason he finds to be offended. Richard Bach.

The beauty of this world is that you can see it in different ways. It is so limitless that it can be reflected in the human mind exactly as the person himself is. That is, the more beautiful a person’s inner world is, the more beautiful the world around him seems. Excerpt from the book “The World of Dreams: Notes of a Wanderer”

Moral values ​​are not a meaningless depiction of decrepit moralists. They are called values ​​because without them neither further development of society nor a happy life is possible. Andre Maurois.

A drop chisels a stone not by force, but by frequent falling. Ovid.

He who reigns within himself and controls his passions, desires and fears is more than a king. John Milton.

One of the most common misconceptions is to consider people good, evil, stupid, smart. Man flows, and he has all the possibilities: he was stupid, he became smart, he was angry, he became kind and vice versa. This is the greatness of man. And you can’t judge a person based on this. You condemned, but he is already different. Lev Tolstoy.

There are learned people, and there are wise people. Scientists are those who know a lot. And the wise are those who understand what they know. Mikhail Zadornov.

Often we find it difficult to find a solution because we subconsciously limit ourselves to the territory of the drawing. However, nowhere does it say that you cannot go beyond it. Conclusion: to understand the system, you need to... step outside it. Bernard Werber

Fall in love with someone who wants you, who will wait for you. Who will understand your madness, who will help you and guide you, who will support you, your hope. Fall in love with someone who will talk to you, even after a fight. Fall in love with someone who will always miss you and want to be with you. But don't fall in love with a body or a face or the idea of ​​being loved. Maksim Gorky.

The best response to enemy criticism is to smile and forget. Vladimir Nabokov.

very many people wait all week for Friday, the whole month of the holiday, the whole year of summer, and all their lives for happiness. But you need to rejoice in every day and enjoy every moment. Osho.

You must be able to close a boring book, leave a bad movie, part with people who do not value you. A. Green

Realize that you are not “living for anything,” but simply “living.”

The only mistake, almost always, is to think that only from your bell tower the whole truth is visible. A deaf person always thinks that those who dance are crazy. Jorge Bucay.

Every power and every passion which a man possesses is his by divine design, and if he breaks or neglects any part of his nature, he betrays the trust placed in him. The spiritual essence must grow from the material essence and become completely perfect and powerful in its form. Annie Besant.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned on things they don't need just to impress people they can't stand. Will Rogers.

Each person is a reflection of his inner world. As a person thinks, that is how he is (in life). Marcus Tullius Cicero.

In youth, for some reason, it seems that life promises a continuous holiday. And then it becomes clear that no one, in fact, promised you anything. And that advance in the form of youth, beauty, worthless success had to be invested in business. And if you squandered it in a pathetic way, that’s your problem. Natalya Simonova.

The purpose of dinner is nutrition and the purpose of marriage is family. Lev Tolstoy.

Eastern wisdom says: there is no need to interfere in disputes between close relatives... They explain it this way: Relatives are a finger. One brother is a nail, the other is a pad. There should be nothing between the nail and the pad. Everything that gets under the nail: either dirt or a splinter is superfluous and unnecessary...

Nature has given man a weapon - intellectual moral strength, but he can use this weapon in the opposite direction, therefore a person without moral principles turns out to be the most wicked and savage creature, base in his sexual and taste instincts. Aristotle.

A fish with its mouth closed never gets hooked. Fuad Viento. The wind of change

Gymnastics, physical exercise, and walking should become firmly established in the everyday life of everyone who wants to maintain efficiency, health, and a full and joyful life. Hippocrates.

Wisdom is like precious stones for a person, the ability to correctly apply knowledge. It is not for nothing that in the biblical parable King Solomon asked God for wisdom, and not for wealth or anything else.
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Wise Quotes - You can't go back in time and change your start, but you can start now and change your finish.

Those who wait patiently do get something eventually, but it's usually what's left over from the people who didn't wait.

Only those who are worse than us think badly of us, and those who are better than us simply have no time for us. - Omar Khayyam.

The lower man soul, the higher nose up. He reaches with his nose to where his soul has not grown.

Any luck is the result of long preparation...

Life is a mountain. You go up slowly, you go down quickly. - Guy de Maupassant.

Give advice only when asked. - Confucius.

Time doesn't like to be wasted. - Henry Ford.

Nothing is impossible in this life. It just happens that there weren’t enough attempts...

Don't make decisions when you're angry. Don't make promises when you're happy.

There are two ways to live life. One way is to think that miracles do not happen. The second is to think that everything that happens is a miracle. - Albert Einstein.

Truly, always where reasonable arguments are lacking, they are replaced by a cry. - Leonardo da Vinci.

Don’t judge what you don’t know about - the rule is simple: remaining silent is much better than saying nothing.

A person finds time for everything he really wants. - F.M. Dostoevsky.

We will not come to this world again, we will not find our friends again. Hold on to the moment... After all, it will not be repeated, just as you yourself will not be repeated in it...

They don’t plan friendship, they don’t shout about love, they don’t prove the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche.

Our life is a consequence of our thoughts; it is born in our heart, it is created by our thoughts. If a person speaks and acts with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves.

I really don't like arrogant people who put themselves above others. I just want to give them a ruble and say, if you find out your worth, you will return the change... - L.N. Tolstoy.

Human disputes are endless not because it is impossible to find the truth, but because those arguing are not looking for truth, but for self-affirmation. - Buddhist wisdom.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a single day in your life. - Confucius.

It’s not enough to know, you have to apply it. It’s not enough to want, you have to do it.

A bee, having thrust a steel sting, does not know that it is missing... So fools, when releasing poison, do not understand what they are doing. - Omar Khayyam.

The kinder we become, the more kindly others treat us, and the more good we are, the easier it is for us to see the good around us.

Smart people do not so much seek solitude as they avoid the fuss created by fools. - Arthur Schopenhauer.

There will come a time when you decide it's over. This will be the beginning. - Louis Lamour.