Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. 716
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. 683
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. 722
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. 1.79K
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. 710
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. 638
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. 1.45K
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. 790
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. 689
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth. 1.28K
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. 678
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. 770
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 635
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. 766
