A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle. – Vera Nazarian
- With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the way of Tao is kindness – Lao Tzu
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen
- at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. – Lisel Mueller
- Love has the mind of a sage, the heart of a saint, and the soul of an angel. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. – Reif Larsen
- Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A sage’s mind is greater than a warrior’s sword. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. – Penelope Lively
- Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The boy’s skeletal frame was now all that remained of him, and through his flesh could be seen the steady beat of his indomitable heart. – Sage Steadman
- Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune…has already brought him acquittal! – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time… Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places. – Tana French
- Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves. – Stacia Pelletier
- Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. – MF Moonzajer
- Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. – MF Moonzajer
- In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
- The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. – Augustine Birrell
- The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. – Anonymous
- One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Don’t poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Light only benefits one whose eyes are open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love is the only rose whose thorn’s prick is sweet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family. – Sage Steadman
- He just wasn’t into flaunting his awesomeness, but sometimes a person’s awesomeness simply flaunts itself, even when you politely ask it not to. – Sage Steadman
- To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about. – Sage Kafsky
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
- One soul-mate is enough to face life’s countless soul-enemies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. – William James