“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
Kahlil Gibran · Sand and Foam, 1926
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
Dorothy Thompson
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
Jim Rohn
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”
Washington Irving
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Carl Jung
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting go of a little water.”
Antoine Rivarol
“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
“There is a day in summer when the long nights begin, and they begin because the sun has swung as far north as it will go.”
Rachel Carson · The Edge of the Sea
“All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.”
Ann Packer · The Dive from Clausen's Pier
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is stirring in the greenness underneath.”
William Carlos Williams · Spring and All
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance
“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
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“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”
Richard Whately · "Apophthegms", 1854
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Jack Kornfield
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
Rumi · "The Essential Rumi", translated by Coleman Barks
