Aphorisms – words of wisdom that reinforce our thoughts, ideas, beliefs and opinions. They are a source of strength, motivating and inspiring us along life’s journey.
The following words of wisdom are short and easy to remember. Do take a few moments to have a look. Maybe there is something that is useful to you. Or, maybe you know of someone who needs some encouragement. If nothing else, they will add to your chest of knowledge.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. - Lao Tzu
Few things are commonplace in themselves. It is our reaction to them that grows dull, as we move forward through the years. - Unknown
The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. - Konrad Adenauer
It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. - Gerard Patrick Roeling
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. - Vince Lombardi
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Few of the valuable things in life ‘just happen’. When they happen it is because we recognize their importance and devote ourselves to them. - Unknown
The more a man avoids making declared statements, the less likely he’ll seem foolish in retrospect. - Unknown
There’s no need to hurry, yet no time to lose. - Bessie Copage
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all plate is no more than earthenware. - Seneca
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
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