Narguess's Wisdom Page

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

If you have the right intentions, anything is possible…the person who has the greatest power is the one who has a perfect heart.

If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won’t be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold.

We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.

Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and great poetry, remains among the sharpest impressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, 
that is wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything,
that is love.
Between these two life does turn.

Love rules without a sword and binds without a string.

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.