🧠 Dilanka’s quote cellar | aged, bold & worth stealing

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Scooby-Doo teaches kids that the scary monster usually isn't a monster at all - it's a person with an ordinary, usually selfish motive hiding behind a frightening disguise.

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. Hence his victories bring him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage.

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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

A real soldier does not fight because he has something that he hates in front of him. He fights because he has something that he loves behind his back.

An overwhelming state of spiritual or mental numbness, apathy, and listlessness where a person completely loses the motivation to care about or engage with life.

An intellectual dead-end or state of puzzle (e.g., An egg comes from a chicken, but a chicken comes from an egg), where you hit an intellectual dead-end where there is no easy logical way forward.

WAYNE A mother can but guide … then step aside—I knew I could not say, “This is the way that you should go.”

Latin adage meaning "make haste slowly" — It encourages taking a balanced approach to life and work - urging you to proceed with urgency and purpose, but with enough patience and care to get the job done right the first time.

Those who can not conceive friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a friend.

There can be no offense heavier than that of him in whom such a sacred trust has been reposed, who sells it for his own gain and enrichment. He is worse than the thief, for the thief robs the individual, while the corrupt official plunders an entire city or state.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities.