Virtue is the first title of nobility. – Moliere

It is better to be nobly remembered, than nobly born. – Ruskin

Be noble in every thought

And every deed! – Longfellow

A fool, indeed, has great need of a title; it teaches men to call him count or duke, and thus forget his proper name, of fool. – J. Crown

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Knowledge is the action of the soul.” – Ben Jonson

“Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.” – Macaulay

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches increases ever with the acquisition of it.” – Sterne

“Knowledge comes

Of learning well retain’d unfruitful else.” – Dante

“The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” – Cecil

“Knowledge is power.” – Hobbes

“I have taken all knowledge to be my province.” – Bacon

“Banish me from Eden when you will, but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

“Before God we are equally wise – equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein

“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.” – Francis Bacon

“He that increase knowledge increase sorrow.” – Old Testament

“A seeming ignorance is often a most necessary part at wordy knowledge.” – Lord Chesterfield

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivations; you do not fine it among gross people.” – Samuel

“What is gladness without gratitude, and where is gratitude without a God?” – Coventry Patmore

“A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer.” – Lessing

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” – J.B. Massieu

An old lady who looks as if she is about to die,
A doctor who had once saved your life,
A man/woman you have been dreaming to be with.
You can only take one passenger in your car. Which one will you choose?

Think about it before you continue reading.

This must be some kind of personality test. Every answer has its reasoning.
You could pick up the old lady. She is going to die, and thus you should save her first. You could take the doctor, because he once saved your life. This will be the perfect chance to pay him back.However, you could always pay the doctor back in the future, but you may never be able to find the perfect lover once you pass this chance.

The candidate who was eventually hired (out of 200 applicants) did not have to explain his answer. WHAT DID HE SAY?

He simply answered:
“Give the car key to the doctor. Let him take the old lady to the hospital. I will stay and wait for the bus with the man/woman of my dreams.”

Sometimes, we would gain more if we were able to give up our stubborn limitations.

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the
room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.
Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity
and color of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn’t hear the band – he could see it. In his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be
moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was
comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his
first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.
It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”

Epilogue:
“There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations”
“Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled”
“If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy”
“Today is a gift, that’s why it is called the present.”

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions.

But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened: Everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger.
“God, how could you do this to me?” he cried.

Early next morning, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him.”How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of hisrescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we
shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in
the midst of pain and suffering. Remember, next time your little
hut is burning to the ground–it just may be a smoke signal that
summons the grace of God.

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Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. – Ancient Chinese proverb

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. – Anatole France

In the space age the most important space is between the ears. – Anne Armstrong

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. - Kahlil Gibran

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. – Henri Bergson

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be wary of a man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. – Joaquin de Setanti

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm S. Forbes

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourselves is through someone else’s eyes. – TV series Scrubs

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. – Miguel de Cervantes

To know the road ahead ask those coming back. – Chinese proverb

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. – Hippocrates

Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and you just end up walking funny. – Kathryn Carpenter