Take an interest in aphorisms. Understand what they are saying and learn the underlying lesson/lessons in them. Apply them to life, and to your life. You will discover not only the wisdom, but also the beauty in words. Give the following a try.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyse it, and appropriately act on it. - Stephen R. Covey
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. - Marcus Aurelius
There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires. - Jim Rohn
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. - James Baldwin
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we’re always trying to live up to. - Andrew Cohen
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. - Aristotle
Love and time – those are the only two things in the entire world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. - Unknown
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. - Benjamin Disraeli
Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. - Unknown
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. - Jim Rohn
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