Wisdom Quote by Wallace Stegner — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to”

“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.”

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product”

“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“Building a strong bridge makes a legend; saving those who fall from a weak one makes a hero.”

“Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”

“Life becomes lighter the moment we stop forcing and start allowing.”

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”

“I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must.”

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”