Wisdom Quotes, page 116

“Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs, and the rest is just for showing off.”

“Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. But I think maybe it's both.”

“Now you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Things don't just happen; it's all part of a plan.”

“I believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.”

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

“We must love one another or die.”

“And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

“Only when the eyes are closed can you truly see.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion."”

“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.”

“It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.”

“Oh dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.”

“As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

“Nothing is to be preferred before justice”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.”

“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”

“When does the soul obtain truth?—for in attempting to consider anything in company with the body she is obviously deceived.”

“The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is also liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth.”

“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”

“For no impure thing is allowed to approach the pure.”