Wisdom Quote by Moira Young — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.”

“Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.”

“I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!”

“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.”

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten, but then - how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“A tiger can’t eat you if you hide in a lion’s stomach.”