What is the wisest thing you have ever heard?

Answer 1

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Answer 2

the Desiderata is a great source of wisdom:

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

- Max Ehrmann

Answer 3

The ocean waves crashing on the shore...the wind rustling through the trees...the chirping of a bird, careless in its flight...and the crack of lightning as it illuminates the night sky.

Answer 4

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in Earth of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man

Answer 5

My grandmother taught me that there are only two kinds of worries in t he world.
There are worries you can do something about. If you can do something about it, you ought to get up and do it, and quit worrying about it.
There are worries you can't do anything about. If you can't do anything about it, there is no point in worrying about it.
Now, go on outside and play.

She also made the very best cookies ever!!

Answer 6

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

Answer 7

I think King Solomon's decision was the wisest thing I ever heard.
16Then two women who had become mothers out of wedlock came and stood before the king.

17And one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

18And the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered. And we were together; no stranger was with us, just we two in the house.

19And this woman's child died in the night because she lay on him.

20And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while your handmaid slept and laid him in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom.

21And when I rose to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I had considered him in the morning, behold, it was not the son I had borne.

22But the other woman said, No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son! And this one said, No! But the dead son is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.

23The king said, One says, This is my son that is alive and yours is the dead one. The other woman says, No! But your son is the dead one and mine is the living one.

24And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword to the king.

25And the king said, Divide the living child in two and give half to the one and half to the other.

26Then the mother of the living child said to the king, for she yearned over her son, O my lord, give her the living baby, and by no means slay him. But the other said, Let him not be mine or yours, but divide him.

27Then the king said, Give her [who pleads for his life] the living baby, and by no means slay him. She is the child's mother.

Answer 8

In Ecclesiastes, 12:14

Fear God and keep His commandments,
for this is man's all,
for God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil

Answer 9

Someone told me before, "Get a life."

I think thats probably wise. I probably still havent followed that advice but oh well.

Answer 10

We all live in a cage. The question is... Is your cage too big or too small? Your answer shows how much freedom you have as you see your world you live in.