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“Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.”

Needs Moments Wisdom Wise Source Draws Calm Stores Clever Reservoirs

Book:Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914

Source: Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914

“We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.”

“The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. They are therefore wise who make themselves an asset. We can be our own worst enemies or best friends. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Persons Life Is Enemy Successful Wise Trouble Worst Source Empty Block Cures Assets Worst Enemy Successful Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”

Thinking Persons Past Lying Wise Regret Source Anticipation Calamity Express Yourself No Regrets I Regret Have No Regrets Past Regrets

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”

Mistake Wise Source Explanation Readiness

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892

“A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.”

Action Process Emotion Forever Wise Source Ultimate Take Me Truthful Discernment Being There

Author:Bill Crawford

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

Life Happiness Wise Source Curiosity Satisfaction True Happiness Life Happiness Attaining Happiness Source Of Happiness Satisfaction In Life

Author:Linus Pauling