Quotes - Don't Waste Your Time

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Don't Waste Your Time

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

― Paulo Coelho

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

― Eckhart Tolle

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

― Colette

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”

― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

― Truman Capote

“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”

― Bob Marley

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”

― Jimi Hendrix

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

― Sharon Salzberg

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

― Voltaire

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

― Bruce Lee

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

― Confucius

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

― Ludwig van Beethoven

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