"It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging."

-- Ninon de L'Enclos

#Wise Quotes #Enough Quotes #Being Wise Quotes

“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”
“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”
“Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.”
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.”
“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”
“Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...”

Source : "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 201.
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”

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