Wisdom Quote by Louise Penny — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”

“Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their brain with blood. It waits in alleys and metro stops. After the sun goes down plugs are pulled by white-clad guardians and death is invited into an antiseptic room.”

“You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?”

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.”

“Pride talks to impress; wisdom listens to understand.”

“if the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented.”

“Someone already mastered behavior change hundreds of years ago: it's called religion”

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and”

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

“Enlightenment isn’t a mountain peak. It’s a hallway light left on when you thought you were alone.”