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You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 697, "text": "A fool prays for an easier road; a wise man prays for stronger legs.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 25, "text": "Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 750, "text": "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.", "author": "Michelangelo", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 751, "text": "A man who fears pain more than failure will taste both.", "author": "", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 43, "text": "The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 59, "text": "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.", "author": "Goethe", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 198, "text": "The greatest mistake a man can make is being afraid of making one.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 664, "text": "When we lose our principles, we invite chaos.", "author": "Irving ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 635, "text": "Pain comes from within, and you are free to let go of pain.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 46, "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 678, "text": "Nothing to fear but fear itself.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 42, "text": "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.", "author": "William James", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 243, "text": "The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.", "author": "Heraclitus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 284, "text": "Don't reply when you're angry.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 82, "text": "The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 665, "text": "Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 91, "text": "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 50, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 87, "text": "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 100, "text": "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.", "author": "Plato", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 680, "text": "An economic depression is bad; panic is worse. A tough situation isn’t helped by terror—it only makes things harder.", "author": "Ryan Holiday", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 681, "text": "Those who aren’t pompous in good times don’t have their bubbles burst with change.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 728, "text": "My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Charles Dickens", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 161, "text": "One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others.", "author": "Bianca Sparacino", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 596, "text": "In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 270, "text": "Once you realize the power of your words, you won't just say anything. When you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't entertain just anything. Once you figure out the power of your presence, you won't just be anywhere.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 141, "text": "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 160, "text": "Any person capable of angering you, becomes your master.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 488, "text": "Concentrate every minute like a Roman on doing what's in front of you.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 280, "text": "To be angry is to let others' mistakes control you. To forgive is to control yourself.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 204, "text": "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 701, "text": "To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.", "author": "Manly P. Hall", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 171, "text": "Anything you can't control is teaching you how to let go.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 276, "text": "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 162, "text": "He who seeks does not find; but he who does not seek, will be found.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 167, "text": "The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 782, "text": "The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.", "author": "Naval Ravikant", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 598, "text": "Being angry is the way of showing weakness; staying calm is your superpower.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 207, "text": "Expect nothing; appreciate everything.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 148, "text": "There’s no reason to look at the ground when soaring through the air.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 669, "text": "Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.", "author": "David Allen", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 619, "text": "Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 667, "text": "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.", "author": "James Allen", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 177, "text": "When a dog barks at you, you never fall on your hands and knees to bark back.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 668, "text": "Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.", "author": "Eckhart Toll", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 168, "text": "Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 272, "text": "Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed, courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 53, "text": "It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener at war.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 267, "text": "Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 239, "text": "The grass is always greener where we water it.", "author": "Wolfgang Puck", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 202, "text": "If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favourable.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 134, "text": "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 599, "text": "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems—not people—to focus your energy on answers—not excuses.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 176, "text": "Love is light, let it grow. Hate is heavy, let it go.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 203, "text": "If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 170, "text": "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 621, "text": "Getting organized is a sign of self-respect.", "author": "Gabrielle Bernstein ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 217, "text": "There are some things that you cannot be sure of. You must take a chance. If you wait for perfect weather, you will never plant your seeds. If you are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you will never harvest your crops.", "author": "The Bible (Ecclesiastes 11:3-5)", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 641, "text": "There’s a reason your windshield is bigger than your rear view mirror. Where you’re headed is more important than what you left behind.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 562, "text": "He who thinks the journey is over is truly lost.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 95, "text": "Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.", "author": "Zeno", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 133, "text": "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 281, "text": "Don't criticize when you're envious.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 144, "text": "Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 294, "text": "Honesty without compassion is cruelty, and kindness without honesty is manipulation.", "author": "Bryan Reeves", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 300, "text": "Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that allows growth, not thunder.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 332, "text": "We are disturbed not by things, but by the view which we take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 257, "text": "Make a habit of two things: to help, or at least, to do no harm.", "author": "Hippocrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 178, "text": "A person that is able to anger you becomes your master.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 334, "text": "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 600, "text": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 622, "text": "For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 154, "text": "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, damned if you don’t. ", "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 784, "text": "Anything you lose by being real is fake.", "author": "", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 282, "text": "Don't judge when you're misinformed.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 305, "text": "Embrace the present moment, for it is the only moment where you have control.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 331, "text": "If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults?", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 561, "text": "Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.", "author": "Eluphas Levi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 673, "text": "What you're not changing, you're choosing.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 173, "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 724, "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.", "author": "Colin Powell", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 131, "text": "Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.", "author": "Plutarch", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 197, "text": "He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 352, "text": "Once you find out the power of your presence, you won't just be anywhere. Once you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't just entertain anything. Once you realize the power of the tongue, you won't just say anything.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 341, "text": "Patience is also a form of action.", "author": "Auguste Rodin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 634, "text": "The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 49, "text": "More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision.", "author": "Cicero", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 124, "text": "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.", "author": "Epicurus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 143, "text": "1 tree can make 1000 matches, but 1 match can burn 1000 trees. Don’t let a negative thought destroy you and your positive ones.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 623, "text": "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.", "author": "Chinese Proverb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 18, "text": "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.", "author": "Zeno", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 153, "text": "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 785, "text": "Failing to plan is planning to fail", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 223, "text": "The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.", "author": "Mark Manson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 624, "text": "No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 585, "text": "If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 156, "text": "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 787, "text": "There are no regrets in life just lessons", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 688, "text": "Be strong enough to be gentle.", "author": "Peter Cullen", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 706, "text": "If you live in the future, you’re anxious. If you live in the past, you’re depressed. If you live in the now, you’re happy.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 205, "text": "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are in the present.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 210, "text": "If you go without something long enough, you'll realize one of two things: how much you really want it or how much you never needed it.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 152, "text": "Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 36, "text": "Prejudices are what fools use for reason.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 16, "text": "He who does not enjoy solitude will not enjoy freedom.", "author": "Schopenhauer", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 97, "text": "True wisdom comes to each of us when we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 166, "text": "If you keep re-reading the same chapter, you will never finish the book.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 136, "text": "Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson.", "author": "Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 407, "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 219, "text": "You cannot find peace by avoiding life.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 791, "text": "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 216, "text": "You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 290, "text": "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.", "author": "Frank A. Clark", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 251, "text": "Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease.", "author": "Yann Martel", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 238, "text": "You shouldn't climb mountains for the world to see you, but for you to see the world.", "author": "David McCullough Jr. ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 260, "text": "Whether you think you can or think you can't—you are right.", "author": "Henry Ford", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 222, "text": "It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of these things and still be calm in your heart.", "author": "Lori Gottlieb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 137, "text": "Good or bad, it's temporary. So don't let your bad times make you lose hope, and don't let your good times make you feel larger than life.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 232, "text": "Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, and mirror what you admire.", "author": "Deb Sofield", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 252, "text": "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 463, "text": "But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 220, "text": "Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 15, "text": "When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 327, "text": "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 44, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 289, "text": "Criticism, like rain, may dampen the spirit; yet, from such showers, the soul's garden blooms ever brighter.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 345, "text": "You could leave life right now; let that determine what you do, say, and think.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 227, "text": "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.", "author": "Spinoza", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 214, "text": "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 196, "text": "Live as if it's your second life, and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to now.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 192, "text": "Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 675, "text": "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.", "author": "John Lennon", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 211, "text": "Be neither so arrogant as to presume to be liked by everyone, nor so humble as to give in to the discontent of a few.", "author": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 224, "text": "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 560, "text": "Think before you speak, and you’ll save yourself from unnecessary troubles.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 349, "text": "When I take care of the land, I am taken care of by the land.", "author": "Shennong", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 288, "text": "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.", "author": "Johann Von Goethe", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 268, "text": "Don't trust your tongue when your heart is hurt, hush and take time to heal.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 285, "text": "Don't promise when you're happy.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 41, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 271, "text": "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 348, "text": "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 259, "text": "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 291, "text": "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 293, "text": "The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 274, "text": "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 494, "text": "If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.", "author": "African Proverb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 283, "text": "Don't decide when you're sad.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 72, "text": "Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 482, "text": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 628, "text": "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.", "author": "Wayne Gretzky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 333, "text": "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 242, "text": "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.", "author": "Buddha", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 709, "text": "If you fake bravery when you’re terrified, that is bravery.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 342, "text": "The whole future lives in uncertainty: live immediately.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 250, "text": "God said “Love your enemy,” so I obeyed him and loved myself.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 445, "text": "Whoever carries the blame, carries the power.", "author": "Alex Hormozi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 355, "text": "I have learned to seek happiness by limiting my desires, rather than by trying to satisfy them.", "author": "John Stuart Hill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 466, "text": "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.", "author": "Hunter S. Thompson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 468, "text": "What I advise you to do is not to be unhappy before the crisis comes.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 315, "text": "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 358, "text": "If you wish to be loved, love.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 339, "text": "Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 111, "text": "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moment of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at the times of challenge.", "author": "Martin Luther King Jr", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 473, "text": "The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 360, "text": "Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.", "author": "Jordan Peterson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 474, "text": "No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it’s irretrievable.", "author": "Zeno", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 357, "text": "The axe forgets what the tree remembers. Be kind with your words and be careful with your temper; people will remember your throw away comments.", "author": "African Proverb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 544, "text": "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.", "author": "Aeschylus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 566, "text": "To know what you know and what you don’t know, that is true knowledge.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 359, "text": "What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.", "author": "Buddha", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 490, "text": "Stupid is the man who always remains the same.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 649, "text": "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.", "author": "Robert Frost", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 361, "text": "The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 568, "text": "Always tell the truth, and you’ll never have to remember what you said.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 485, "text": "Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.", "author": "Jeff Bezos", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 570, "text": "A healthy man wants one thousand things. A sick man wants one.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 497, "text": "He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 399, "text": "Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 529, "text": "Success is not just about reaching the goal itself. It’s about who we become in the process.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 569, "text": "You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.", "author": "James Clear", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 533, "text": "As a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 541, "text": "Don't be afraid to start over again. This time, you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 540, "text": "As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.", "author": "Leonardo Da Vinci", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 356, "text": "Don't be overheard complaining, not even to yourself.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 626, "text": "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 514, "text": "Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning and being grateful.", "author": "Roy T. Bennett", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 710, "text": "No amount of guilt can change the present; no amount of anxiety can change the future", "author": "", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 538, "text": "It only has to make sense to you.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 530, "text": "I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.", "author": "Jimmy Dean", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 22, "text": "It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 48, "text": "Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 38, "text": "The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 543, "text": "The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away.", "author": "Leland Val ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 39, "text": "Life is quite simple, but we insist on making it complicated", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 535, "text": "Act according to your principle, not your mood.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 60, "text": "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.", "author": "Plato", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 500, "text": "Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 44, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 5, "text": "Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who can not control himself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 286, "text": "You wish to be kind, so you are tested with negativity. You wish to be strong, so you are tested with weakness. You wish to love, so you are tested by being alone.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 505, "text": "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 346, "text": "Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 180, "text": "A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 531, "text": "Have patience for the things you want to last forever.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 516, "text": "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 67, "text": "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 79, "text": "An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 57, "text": "Above all, avoid falsehood. Every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 11, "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 80, "text": "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 507, "text": "Listen without judgement, love without attachment.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 4, "text": "Those who look for bad in people will surely find it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 58, "text": "Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people learn from their experiences. Stupid people already have the answers.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 9, "text": "He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 2, "text": "Instead of fighting the world, kill your ego.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 142, "text": "If you evade conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.", "author": "Cheryl Richardson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 522, "text": "To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 467, "text": "Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.", "author": "Alain De Botton", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 88, "text": "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 86, "text": "While we wait for life, life passes.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 521, "text": "Give people their flowers while they can still smell them.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 41, "text": "Above all things, respect yourself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 44, "text": "A wise man doesn't say every single thing he thinks, but thinks every single thing he says.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 61, "text": "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 78, "text": "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 126, "text": "If it's out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.", "author": "Ivan Nuru", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 75, "text": "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 517, "text": "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.", "author": "Alexander Graham Bell", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 65, "text": "Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that's in others.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 63, "text": "Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 101, "text": "Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 103, "text": "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 74, "text": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 120, "text": "Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.", "author": "Hafez", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 128, "text": "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.", "author": "James Oppenheim", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 117, "text": "Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 109, "text": "Until you get comfortable with being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness.", "author": "Mandy Hale", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 115, "text": "Your past mistakes are there to guide you, not to define you.", "author": "Les Brown", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 714, "text": "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 1, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 112, "text": "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 102, "text": "Do it or do not do it—you will regret both.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 534, "text": "Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 118, "text": "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 489, "text": "You don't need to have an opinion about everything. Don't get worked up about things you can't control. These things didn't ask for your attention. Leave them alone.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 113, "text": "Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.", "author": "Randy Armstrong", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 110, "text": "When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 73, "text": "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" } ]