Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 1
A goal is a dream taken seriously.
Walt Hopkins
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Wisdom 2
It is only when you have nothing to say
that everyone agrees with you.
Daniel Barenboim
Source: 25 Mar 05 interview on Radio 4
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Wisdom 3
Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner
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Wisdom 4
When you start on your journey to Ithaca,
then pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
C. P. Cavafy
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Wisdom 5
Always keep Ithaca fixed in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for long years;
and even to anchor at the isle when you are old,
rich with all that you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have taken the road.
But she has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not defrauded you.
With the great wisdom you have gained, with so much experience,
you must surely have understood by then what Ithacas mean.
C. P. Cavafy
Source: "Ithaca" from The Complete Poems of Cavafy
Comment: Translated by Rae Dalven
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Wisdom 6
We are aware that blaming and arguing never help us and only create a wider gap between us, that only understanding, trust and love can help us change and grow.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Wisdom 7
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
Albert Schweitzer
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Wisdom 8
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Jean Piaget
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Wisdom 9
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
Source: From his poem "Reluctance"
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Wisdom 10
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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