Truisms - Words to Live By

Proverbs, aphorisms, maxims... are also words of wisdom and truisms. Some of these short phrases are embedded with profound lessons which, unless we take time to contemplate, we would have miss the lessons they are teaching.

When we come across an aphorism, we should make it a point to take a moment to think about what the phrase meant. We might learn something valuable to us, or we could learn something about life which they didn’t teach us in school.

You may find that sometimes, those words described most appropriately the present situation you are in, or a situation you were once in. When that happens, you will find that the words take on a new meaning.

Take a look at this week's selection of aphorisms.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. - Miguel de Cervantes

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Unknown

The only good in pretending, is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. - Booth Tarkington

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. - John Barth

It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him. - M. Thompson

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. - James Allen

Let the other fellow find out who you are. He’ll remember it longer. - Unknown

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. - Eleanor Carroll Chilton

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. - Frank Crane

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. - Hubert H. Humphrey

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