Wisdom Quote by Benjamin Franklin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.”

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”

“That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.”

“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,”

“Neuroscience supports collective healing: research on neuroplasticity and polyvagal theory shows that as individuals heal from trauma, they become more resilient, connected, & capable of problem solving - all skills for building a flourishing society.”

“Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.”

“We are taught to fear being forgotten, but some things deserve to be let go. That’s not erasure—it’s release.”

“The day when a woman enjoys her first love cuts her in two. The man is the same after his first love as he was before. The woman is from the day of her first love another. That continues so all through life. The man spends a night by a woman and goes away. His life and body are always the same. The woman conceives. As a mother she is another person than the woman without child. She carries the fruit of the night nine months long in her body. Something grows. Something grows into her life that never again departs from it. She is a mother. She is and remains a mother even though her child die, though all her children die. For at one time she carried the child under her heart. And it does not go out of her heart ever again. Not even when it is dead. All this a man does not know. He does not know the difference before love and after love, before motherhood and after motherhood. Only a woman can know that and speak of that. She must always be maiden and always be mother. Before every love she is maiden, after every love she is mother." — An Abyssinian Noblewoman”