“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”
Bill (speaking to Charlie) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
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Wisdom Quotes
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · "Vertuous Women Found," American Quarterly, 1976
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately · Apophthegms, 1854
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart
“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 8
“A good meal shared, a door held open, a debt remembered and repaid. These are the actual events of a life. Everything else is footnote.”
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“The man who laughs at another's misfortune has simply decided his own comfort matters more than someone else's pain. That is the whole of his character.”
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“Routine is not a cage. It's the ground you stand on while everything else shifts.”
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“The person the world ignores is usually the one paying the closest attention to it.”
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“Kindness costs the giver almost nothing and arrives at the receiver like a fire in a cold room.”
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“How you treat yourself in private sets the standard for everything else.”
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“You don't need to earn rest, kindness, or a seat at the table. You needed those things before you achieved anything.”
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“The woman who respects herself respects her own 'no' as much as her 'yes.'”
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“Your softness and your firmness are the same thing. Both are you.”
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