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“The lesson you pay for is the one you actually keep.”
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“Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to take advice.”
Ecclesiastes 4:13 · Book of Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Bible
“Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.”
Proverbs 16:31 · Book of Proverbs, Hebrew Bible
“The unlived life is always better because it never has to survive contact with living.”
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“Some things are worth more after they've been broken. The repair is the evidence that they were worth saving.”
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“The break is part of the object's story. Making it invisible doesn't heal it. It just makes you carry it alone.”
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Socrates · Attributed in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:34 · The Bible, English Standard Version
“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”
Thich Nhat Hanh · The Miracle of Mindfulness, 1975
“Keep close to nature's heart and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.”
John Muir · John of the Mountains, 1938
