"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

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Hermann Hesse

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.”
“The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.”
“Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.”
“Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.”
“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”
“...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.”
“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”

Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.
“Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.”

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