We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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"Love is space and time measured with the heart."

- Marcel Proust

Love

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

- Marcel Proust

Love

"naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May."

- Marcel Proust

Love

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

- Marcel Proust

Transformation

"Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

- Marcel Proust

Self-awareness

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"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

Wisdom

"So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly."

Wisdom

"In old age is wisdom; understanding in a long life."

Wisdom

"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and receipts for all major purchases."

- Bridger Winegar

Wisdom

"Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

- Zimbabwean Proverb

Wisdom