WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” – Leo Rosten

Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost and all in the end is harvest – Edith Sitwell

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. – Moby

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface. But sometimes, there’s a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie. – Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon

Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King Jr

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. – Oscar Wilde

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. – Douglas Adams

There are more fools in the world than there are people. – Heinrich Heine

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. – Bertrand Russell