Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~ Sholom Aleichem
You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.
~ Yogi Berra
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
~ Josh Billings
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
~ William Blake
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
- Sir Thomas Browne
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~ Samuel Butler
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
~ Charlie Chaplin
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
~ e.e. cummings
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
~ Robertson Davies
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~ T.S. Eliot
What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
~ Thomas Fuller
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
~ Neil Gaiman
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~ Goethe
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
~ Cynthia Heimel
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
~ James Gibbons Huneker
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
~ Angelina Jolie
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
~ Carl G. Jung
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
~ Soren Kiekegaard
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
~ Louis L'Amour
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, -- act in the living present!
Heart within and god o'erhead.
~ H.W. Longfellow
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~ Alexander Pope
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me.
~ Walt Whitman
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