Dolly Parton (born January 19th, 1946) is a country music singer-songwriter legend. She’s also a business woman and philanthropist. She was first a successful songwriter for other artists, then released her first album in 1967, and has since sold over 100 million records. She’s had 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Dolly Parton.

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

“A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.”

“Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give’em yours!”

“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.”

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don’t have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.”

“If you’re feeling low, don’t despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.”

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.”

“When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.”

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“Smile, it enhances your face value.”

“It’s when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.”

“What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I’m there with them.”

“I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I’m unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.”

“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”

“I don’t know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.”

“Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.”

“I count my blessings far more than I count my money.”

“When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first – it’s easy to find when you’re looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don’t care who you are! I know we’re all pieces of the same thing – I go for that common light because I know it’s in all of us.”

“God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.”

“I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.”

“Don’t judge me by the cover, ’cause I’m a real good book.”

“When I’m feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.”

“A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.”

“Paradise is a state of mind.”

“It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

“I’ve struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I’ve had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don’t think we should be judgmental. Lord, I’ve got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.”

“I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.”

“We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.”

“You can’t really make people be any different than what they are.”

“God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.”

“When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.”

“I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.”

“The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”

“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

“No one is ever successful at everything that they do.”

“I make jokes about it, but it’s the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn’t know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I’d ever seen. Momma used to say, “Aw, she’s just trash,” and I thought, That’s what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.”

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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862) was an American philosopher and writer. He is best known as an advocate of transcendentalism. He also believed in reincarnation.

His book Walden is about life in the woods, an experiment on self-sufficiency. His essay, Civil Disobedience, influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. In it, he wrote, “I heartily accept the motto—’That government is best which governs least’…”

Below we list some words of wisdom from Henry David Thoreau.

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”

“I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.”

“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”

“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.”

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”


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Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21 1860) was a German philosopher and is best known for his book The World as Will and Representation.

He was one of the first in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy.

His work didn’t attract much attention while he was alive, but gained in popularity after his death in science, philosophy, and literature. His writings on morality, aesthetics, and psychology have influenced many.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Arthur Schopenhauer.

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.”

“The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.”

“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”

“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”

“To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.”

“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”

“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

“I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”

“If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

“When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.”

“There is something in us that is wiser than our head.”

“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”

“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”

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Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838–October 15, 1918) was an Indian spiritual teacher who is considered to be a saint by Hindus and Muslims. He emphasized the importance of self-actualization, forgiveness, compassion, inner peace, and devotion to God.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Sai Baba of Shirdi.

“All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.”

“What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.”

“Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.”

“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.”

“You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.”

“I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.”

“You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!”

“I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long – very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.”

“The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.”

“What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.”

“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.”

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.”

“A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.”

“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”

“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.”

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

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Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean Brotherhood, a religious and philosophical community that explored mathematics, science, and the nature of the universe. He was born on the island of Samos in Greece, in 570 BC, and is best known for his theorem about the relationship between the sides of a right triangle.

Pythagoras spent many years traveling and studying with different philosophers and mathematicians, including Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. He eventually settled in Croton, a Greek colony in southern Italy, where he founded the Pythagorean Brotherhood.

The Pythagorean Brotherhood was a tight-knit community of scholars, who lived together and studied the secrets of the universe. They were devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and dedicated to uncovering the truth about the world and its workings. They believed that the universe was governed by mathematical principles and that everything, from the movement of the stars to the growth of plants, could be explained by mathematical equations.

Pythagoras is credited with the discovery of the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. This theorem is still widely used today in geometry, engineering, and construction.

In addition to his mathematical work, Pythagoras was also a respected philosopher. He believed in the immortality of the soul and the existence of a divine being who governed the universe. He also believed that the world was divided into two realms: the physical world of matter and the spirit world. He taught that the soul could achieve a state of spiritual enlightenment through study and contemplation, and that it was the duty of every person to strive towards this state.

Despite his many achievements, Pythagoras was not without his critics. Many of the people of Croton felt that his ideas were too advanced for them to understand and that he was teaching things that were dangerous to the state. Some accused him of being a heretic, and others felt that his beliefs threatened their way of life.

A legend states that a group of angry citizens stormed the Pythagorean Brotherhood’s headquarters one day, where Pythagoras and his followers were meeting. The mob burned the building to the ground and many of the members of the Brotherhood were killed or imprisoned. Pythagoras was able to escape and fled to Croton.

For many years, Pythagoras lived as a wandering philosopher, traveling from place to place, spreading his teachings and continuing his studies. Despite the danger, he refused to abandon his beliefs and continued to work towards a deeper understanding of the universe.

Pythagoras died in the year 495 BC, at the age of 75. His ideas and teachings continued to influence future generations of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists. Today, he is remembered as one of the greatest minds in history and his theorem is still widely used and studied.

“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”

“The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”

“The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.”

“The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment”

“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”

“Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.”

“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.”

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”

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Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863–July 4, 1902) was an Indian Hindu philosopher and religious teacher who was instrumental in introducing yoga to the Western world. He was also partly responsible for the rise of Hinduism to a major world religion.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Hermann Swami Vivekananda

“The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”

“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”

“Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.”

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

“May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.”

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”

“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”

“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”

“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

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Zhuang Zhou, also known as Zhuangzi, was a 4th century BC influential Chinese philosopher. He wrote the Zhuangzi, which is one of the foundational texts of Taoism.

Below we list some words of wisdom by Zhuangzi.

“Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.”

“A path is made by walking on it.”

“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.”

“A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.”

“A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.”

“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.”

“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”

“The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.”

“Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.”

“Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.”

“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”

“Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it”

“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.”

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”

“My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”

“The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.”

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”

“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.”

“The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.”

“Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.”

“When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.”

“Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.”

“Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.”

“Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.”

“If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.”

“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”

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Hermann Karl Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) was a German-Swiss novelist and poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings focused on spirituality and the search for self-understanding.

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity influenced him the most, but he believed, “for different people, there are different ways to God.”

Below we list some words of wisdom from Hermann Karl Hesse.

“Every experience has its element of magic.”

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”

“Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

“Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.”

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.”

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”

“Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.”

“There is a miracle in every new beginning.”

“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”

“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”

“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

“Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.”

“Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.”

“Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.”

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Abigail Adams (November 22, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the spouse and close advisor of John Adams. She was the first second lady of the United States, second first lady of the United States, and the mother of the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams.

She was a prominent advocate for women’s rights and a strong believer in the importance of education for women.

Adams believed that slavery was evil. She wrote a letter on March 31, 1776, where she doubted most Virginians had the “passion for Liberty” they claimed, since they “deprive their fellow Creatures” of freedom. When a free black youth came to her house in Philadelphia in 1791 asking to be taught how to write, she placed him in a local school. When a neighbor objected, Adams responded that he was “a Freeman as much as any of the young men and merely because his face is black, is he to be denied instruction? How is he to be qualified to procure a livelihood? … I have not thought it any disgrace to my self to take him into my parlor and teach him both to read and write.”

After the capital was relocated in 1800 to Washington, D.C., Abigail became the first First Lady to live at the White House. The city was wilderness and the “President’s House” (as it was called then) was far from finished. Despite the wooded yards, she had trouble finding someone to chop and haul firewood for the First Family. They used the East Room of the White House to hang laundry.

Below are words of wisdom from Abigail Adams.

“I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“It’s never too late to get back on your feet though we won’t live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

“Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.”

“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”

“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”

“How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!”

“Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.”

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

“My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”

“Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.”

“No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”

“A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?”

“History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”

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Giordano Bruno (early 1548–February 17, 1600) was an Italian Hermetic occultist influenced greatly by Renaissance Hermeticism and the wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus, according to Historian Francis Yates. Bruno was also a mathematician and is known largely for his cosmological theories, including the universe is infinite, the stars are distant suns surrounded by planets, and life exists throughout the universe.

He was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition, found guilty, and burned at the stake for the following: denial of core Catholic doctrines, and belief of and teaching reincarnation.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Giordano Bruno.

“Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.”

“Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.”

“God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.”

“Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.”

“I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.”

“The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.”

“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

“All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”

“When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.”

“The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.”

“In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.”

“I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away; everything changes but nothing perishes; One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands. Whereof, however obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.”

“There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.”

“I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.”

“I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.”

“I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!”

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