Wise people don’t just possess information; they possess a compassionate understanding of other people. They know about life.
“The first rule of happiness is low expectations”
― Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
― Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
“People don’t remember books; they remember sentences.”
― Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
― Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
“She who only looks inward will find only chaos, and she who looks outward with the eyes of critical judgment will find only flaws. But she who looks with the eyes of compassion and understanding will see complex souls, suffering and soaring, navigating life as best they can.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“There is no freedom without discipline, no vision without a form, no structure without a function.”
― Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
― Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
“This is what fools people,” the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once observed. “A man is always a teller of stories. He lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and tries to live his life as if he were recounting them.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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