In search of beautiful sayings and wisdom about golf ("Golf Quotes and Wisdom" – link: s. below) I have come across numerous sayings that do not fit the theme. (Somehow of course. Golf offers basically all facets, which also life offers. [Wisdom of Golf Knigge)
To "throw away" the beautiful sayings and life wisdom are too bad. Therefore, here is a small collection of sayings that touched me in some way during my research.
Wisdoms and beautiful sayings
If you have a problem, try to solve it. If you can’t solve it, don’t make it a problem.
– Buddha
Everybody has stupid thoughts – but the wise man keeps them secret.
– William Busch
Who asks the mind in matters of faith, gets unchristian answers.
– William Busch
The true scholar is not ashamed to ask even those who are below him.
– Lao Tzu
All the authority I have is based solely on the fact that I know what I don’t know.
– Socrates
Normality is a paved road: you can walk on it, but no flowers grow on it.
– Vincent van Gogh
My mind is made up! Please do not confuse me with facts.
– Author unknown
Nothing is for free. Even death costs life.
– Author unknown
As a man is, so he shall be.
– Author unknown
A glimpse of the world through God’s eyes. And I thought: Yes, I understand. This is how it was meant!
– Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen, reporting on a flight over the Kenyan steppe (from: Beyond Africa, 1985)
Funny sayings
These are not forehead wrinkles, this is my six pack from thinking.
– Author unknown
I came, I saw… and had forgotten what I wanted.
– Author unknown
I’ll drop everything and become a princess!
– Author unknown
Is this art or can it go away?
– Author unknown (probably: mother or father cleaning up the children’s room)
HURRA! … Oh no, not at all.
– Author unknown
Wisdom haunts me. But I am faster.
– Author unknown
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Nice sayings about life
No one succeeds in leading a wise life by chance. One must learn, as long as one lives, how to live.
– Seneca
Time is a vengeful bandit that steals the beauty of our former selves.
– attributed to Raphael
Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Whatever you do, act as if the world is watching you.
– Thomas Jefferson
Yesterday is over.
Tomorrow is not yet here.
Only today remains for us.
Let us begin.
– attributed to: Mother Teresa
You have to have courage to live. But also a long breath and faith in yourself.
– Author unknown
No one is as uninteresting as a person without interests.
– Author unknown
Worry, but do not worry too much. Everything comes as God wills it.
– Author unknown
The child is the man’s father.
– William Wordsworth
I would rather perish from passion than from boredom.
– Emile Zola
When the heart is healthy, the head is never quite bad.
– Theodor Fontante
With faith alone you can do little. But without him nothing.
– Samuel Butler
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
– Booker T. Washington
Whatever you are: try to be good at it.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
Everything beautiful in life has a catch: Either it is immoral or illegal or it makes you fat.
– Author unknown
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Nowadays, people know mainly the price – and not the value.
– Oscar Wilde
When I was little, I believed that money was the most important thing in life. Today, since I am old, I know: It is true.
– Oscar Wilde
Two paths presented themselves to me in the forest, I took the one that was less traveled – and that changed my life.
– Robert Frost
Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse behind.
– Irene L. Luce
Life is either a bold adventure or nothing at all.
– Helen Keller
To begin, stop talking and start doing.
– Walt Disney
Only reaches into the full human life!
Everybody lives it,
not many know it,
and where you grab it,
there it is interesting.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Start living now and count every day as a life in itself.
– Seneca
As suffering increases, so increases the strength to bear it.
– Johann Caspar Lavater
Six hours are enough for work; the others say to man: Live!
– Lucian
Never should a man disrespect himself; he who has no self-confidence has no luck in life.
– Indian proverb
It is not so important how long our life lasts, but what quality we give to life – how we make it meaningful and how much joy and love we pass on.
– Author unknown
Life is like a play: it’s not how long it lasts, but how colorful it is.
– Seneca
Those who do not appreciate life do not deserve it.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Life is like an onion: you cut slice by slice and sometimes you have to cry.
– Author unknown
Art of living –
to live easily, without frivolity,
to be cheerful without exuberance,
To have courage without arrogance.
– Theodor Fontane
Nothing makes you old faster than the thought that you are getting older.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Beautiful sayings about love
Love conquers all. So let’s also give in to love.
– Virgil
Love is the only thing that doubles when you share it.
– Author unknown
Those we love can hurt us the most.
– Paulo Coelho
What you want to have, you should let go first.
– Chinese proverb
Platonic love seems to me like an eternal aim without imprints.
– Wilhelm Busch
Never in the world hate through Hauss stops. Hate ceases through love.
– Buddha
I already dream of being driven mad by you.
– author unknown
Proverbs about friendship
A friend is a person in front of whom you can think out loud.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as you can’t forgive the other’s otherness, you are still far from the path of wisdom.
– Chinese proverb
We do not get to know people,
when they come to us;
we must go to them,
to experience,
how it is with them.
– Author unknown
Our friendship,
who shall take root,
until we fall into the pit.
– Author unknown
In old age friends become rare.
So let the ones you have count!
Sometimes it’s easy to be right,
but hard the friend, the good, old!
– Author unknown
When you’re in a crisis,
then just call me.
I am no giant either,
but I do what I can.
– Author unknown
I know someone I like,
and if I tell you now quietly,
that you are that someone,
I hope you’ll never forget it.
– Author unknown
Not who laughs with you,
not who cries with you,
only who feels with you,
is really your friend!
– Author unknown
Friendship is love with understanding.
– Author unknown
Have no friend who is not like you.
– Confucius
In friendship do not count age, neither rank nor kinship and relationship. Who is looking for a friend, is looking for the character.
– Mencius
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King
Sayings about happiness
He who wants to be happy all the time must change often.
– Confucius
He who is always dissatisfied is good for nothing.
Always dissatisfied are conceited
and often mischievous to it,
and while they make fun of others,
they themselves leave much to be desired.
– Author unknown
Happy is he who forgets,
what can no longer be changed.
– Author unknown
Happiness is often based only on the decision to be happy.
– Author unknown
If you want to make a man happy, do not add to his riches, but take from him some of his desires.
– Epicurus of Samos
The feeling of joy arises from a sudden affirmation of life.
– Carl Ludwig Schleich
Happiness, they say, is only appearance.
And so it is: imagine to be happy –
and it is you.
– Author unknown
Wealth is like lake water: the more you drink of it, the thirstier you get.
– Author unknown
Happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it.
– Author unknown
Once we understand,
that the secret of happiness does not lie in possession,
but in giving,
we will,
by making happy around us,
become happy himself.
– Author unknown
It is a serious thing about the real joy.
– Seneca
At what point is one really rich? When you finally have enough.
– Author unknown
Man never has what he wants,
because it does not want what it has.
If he wanted what he has, he would have what he wants.
– Author unknown
He who helps himself to only one artist is a thief; he who helps himself to many artists is himself an artist.
– Author unknown
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