Wisdom Quote by Bridget Befur John — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .”

“If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.”

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.”

“Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'”

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

“Brave and stupid are frequent bedfellows.”