Condensed Wisdom
A Collection of Quotations and Wisdom ... Compiled by K. Michael Prewitt.
In The Gutter, Looking At the Stars
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
What If We Had Had One More Hero
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness v. Contentment
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
-D. Jerrard
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Happiness is contentment; most are not content to learn this.
-K. Michael Prewitt
Idle Minds
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
Mixing It Up
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
-Henry Adams
Giving
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speculating on the Future
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate – when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
-Mark Twain
Present & Content in This Moment
I still lived in the future – a habit which is the death of happiness.
-Quentin Crisp
Present Perfect
I never think of the future; it comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein
Not to be Overwhelmed
The best thing about the future is that is comes one day at a time.
-Dean Acheson
The Distance Between Us
Go often to the house of a friend for weeds choke the unused path.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three Old Friends
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-Benjamin Franklin
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