Wisdom versus talking →

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

~ Doug Larson

Elsewhere, this is 4a1467. — slipbox


Risk →

I do not intend to take dangerous chances, both because I have no wish to get hurt and because a fall would stop my experimenting, which I would not like at all. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks.

~ Wilbur Wright

Elsewhere, this is 4a1466. — slipbox


Souvenirs →

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?

~ Ashleigh Brilliant

Elsewhere, this is 4a1465. — slipbox


Inlet to the soul →

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

~ Hosea Ballou

Elsewhere, this is 4a1464. — slipbox


Everyone else →

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

~ Haruki Murakami

Elsewhere, this is 4a1463. — slipbox


Decide →

Decide! There is nothing in the world so pitiable as an undecided man, who wavers between two feelings, hoping to reconcile them, and does not understand that nothing can unite them.

~ Goethe

Elsewhere, this is 4a1462. — slipbox


Knowing →

This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.

~ Alan Watts

Elsewhere, this is 4a1461. — slipbox


Listening →

Sit at your desk and listen.

~ Franz Kafka

Elsewhere, this is 4a1460. — slipbox


Meaning →

Those who can’t find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it too.

~ Lew Welch

Elsewhere, this is 4a1459. — slipbox


Open to →

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

~ Richard Cavett

Elsewhere, this is 4a1458. — slipbox