“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.”
Meryl Streep quoted it as words she lives by
“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”
M.H. McKee
Life’s biggest mistakes are life’s greatest opportunities. Either you learn from your mistakes and use that as stepping stones to success or you keep making the same mistakes…and nothing improves.
"Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con."
~ Carolyn Hax
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
― Anne Bradstreet
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.”
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr
“The simple thing are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless.
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
― Rick Riordan
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha