Best Moments When Wisdom
339 Moments When quotes by 272 unique authors
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One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
— Jimmy Buffett
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Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true…
— J R Ward
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I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
— C.S. Lewis
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At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while…
— Cecelia Ahern
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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
— E. M. Forster
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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a…
— Leo Tolstoy
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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing…
— Leo Tolstoy
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There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself…
— Charlaine Harris
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There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially here of all places—" He froze and…
— Richelle Mead
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
— Oscar Wilde
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Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid…
— Paulo Coelho
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Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole…
— John Green
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Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear…
— Karen Marie Moning
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In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made…
— Fred Rogers
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There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome…
— Markus Zusak
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You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the…
— David Levithan
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see…
— Victor Hugo
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In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe…
— John Gardner
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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those…
— Bell Hooks
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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so…
— Virginia Woolf
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Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think…
— Jodi Picoult
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Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It…
— Dorothy Koomson
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