Tuesday 28 July 2020

Truisms - Words To Live By

Aphorisms – words of wisdom that reinforce our thoughts, ideas, beliefs and opinions. They are a source of strength, motivating and inspiring us along life’s journey.

The following words of wisdom are short and easy to remember. Do take a few moments to have a look. Maybe there is something that is useful to you. Or, maybe you know of someone who needs some encouragement. If nothing else, they will add to your chest of knowledge.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. - Lao Tzu

Few things are commonplace in themselves. It is our reaction to them that grows dull, as we move forward through the years. - Unknown

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. - Konrad Adenauer

It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. - Gerard Patrick Roeling

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. - Vince Lombardi

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

Few of the valuable things in life ‘just happen’. When they happen it is because we recognize their importance and devote ourselves to them. - Unknown

The more a man avoids making declared statements, the less likely he’ll seem foolish in retrospect. - Unknown

There’s no need to hurry, yet no time to lose. - Bessie Copage

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all plate is no more than earthenware. - Seneca

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide


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