"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Wisdom, Loss, Growth, Change, Realization

"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Wisdom, Decision, Mistakes, Destiny, Ownership

"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Wisdom, Experience, Light, Shadow

"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Wisdom, Hateful, People, Behavior, Oblige

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Equality, Faith, Humanity

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Wisdom, Day, Fool, Man

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Art, Quest, Question, Questions

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Curiosity, Existence, Reason, Knowledge

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Knowledge, Mind, Understanding, Learning

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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

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"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

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"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."

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"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."

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"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."

Nature

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

Explore more quotes by Jack London

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash."

"Affluence means influence."

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."

"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."

"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."