Words of Wisdom

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"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
- Marie Curie

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."
- Susan B. Anthony

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
- Helen Keller

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
- Helen Keller

"Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds."
- Franklin Field

"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."
- Mother Teresa

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him."
- Hudson Taylor

"The wise person doesn't give the right answers, but poses the right questions."
- Claude Levi-Strauss

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."
- Ellen Glasgow 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
- Lao Tzu

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates

"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."
- Buddha

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
- Socrates

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
- Chinese Proverb

"Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love."
- Barbra Jordan

"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."
- St. John Damascene, Theologian (675-746 AD)

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Perhaps instead of bombarding God with requests for what is not, we might try, instead, asking God to open our eyes to see what is."
- Margaret Silf

"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows."
– Ojibwe Prayer

"Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason."
- Pope Francis

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton