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Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about wisdom

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for...

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, wish, things

If you love me If you love me, by spells of wishing I will turn all the stars of heaven in tears of joy and lunatic kisses. If you hate me, I will turn all your thoughts of hating in fire boomerangs which wil burn your heart...

Quote by Cristian Petru Balan about poetry, celebrity, stars, kiss, tears, joy, hate, love, fire, fire brigade

To turn a moron into a scholar, one needs great faith; to...

To turn a moron into a scholar, one needs great faith; to turn a scholar into a moron, disillusion suffices...

Quote by Maria Pal about attitude, faith

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming...

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about chance

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about army, society, man

The man who thus looks up is becoming worthy to be looked...

The man who thus looks up is becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn, and, to this extent, qualifying for leadership.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about leadership, man

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're...

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, old, olderness, people

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle...

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Quote by Derek Bailey about music

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Quote by Gerry Adams about fight, blind, past, rightness

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks...

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Quote by Bruce Barton about hope, contentment

I liked the fact that I didn't have to worry about being...

I liked the fact that I didn't have to worry about being brought up for cheating, but it was kind of a pain to turn it into the Web site.

Quote by Kim Basinger about cheating, worry, pain, being

I have only been able to write something I feel, turn it...

I have only been able to write something I feel, turn it from a thought into a full song, cut it and find a good home for it.

Quote by Michael Bolton about home, thinking, good, good luck

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, ...

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Quote by George W. Bush about heart, contentment, life

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten...

Quote by George Gordon Byron about wine, ambition, fame, games, happiness, being, things, people

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the...

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about absurd, mind, things

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away...

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Quote by Albert Camus about world, order

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Quote by Albert Camus about god, impossible

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Quote by Jane Austen about sport

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