"Only the heart knows how to find..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
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“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.”
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”
More on Wisdom
“It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.”
“It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”
“There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.”