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The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Enough experience will make you wise.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.