Inspiring Quotes: On Knowledge And Wisdom

by The Happy WAHM

17/365Challenge: My favorite quotes on knowledge and wisdom.

Knowledge is knowing what to say.  Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.  One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.  – Sandra Carey

Science is organized knowledge.  Wisdom is organized life.  – Immanuel Kant

Knowledge comes from learning.  Wisdom comes from living.  – Anthony Douglas Williams

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way.  Wisdom is looking both directions anyway.

Knowledge is learning something everyday.  Wisdom is letting go of something everyday.  – Zen Proverb

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.  – Marilyn vos Savant

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  – Isaac Asimov

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.  – Charles Spurgeon

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2/365Challenge: Pleasure

by The Happy WAHM

Pleasure on the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Enjoy what you do, do what you enjoy.  Find pleasure in your work and you’ll get better results.

I’ve been a virtual assistant for nine years.  And before that, I was in credit management for 12 years.  I would not have lasted more than two years in each job if I did not find pleasure in them.  The pay, while important, would have been secondary.  Oh, maybe I would have done something that pays well but do not enjoy for a while, just to keep afloat, but not for long.  I would either learn to love what I’m doing, or find something else.  Fortunately, I’ve always managed to be in the right place at the right time with the right price.

It pays to know what makes you happy.  For me, it starts with being at home with the kids.  Then the fact that I don’t have to wake up earlier than usual to make allowance for traffic.  Not having to think about what to wear, that’s a lot of worry taken out of my plate.  Loving the challenges that clients present to me every day.  Learning new things.  And yes, being paid well for my efforts.  All those things give me pleasure, and my job is easier because of the positive feeling I have towards it.

Some days, my work does not feel like work at all.

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Courage

by The Happy WAHM

Courage is grace under pressure.  – Ernest Hemingway

I’m doing my first courageous act for 2016:  Starting a series that I hope (and the operative word is hope) to sustain for 365 days.

For the rest of 2016 (with my fingers crossed), I want to be able to share something inspiring, motivational, stimulating.  It can be a quote, or a photo, or a thought.  Ramblings that may inspire.  Or maybe just a single word.  Like today.

My first word for 2016 is courage.  I’m going to need a lot of it this year.  Courage to go through uncharted territories as far as my virtual assistance career is concerned.  I’ve always been very conservative in my career decisions. always erring on the side of caution.  I’m not saying that I’ll be throwing caution to the wind this year.  I just want to be a teeny-weeny bit more aggressive (and a lot less shy) in putting myself out there.   I have not done so in the past because I have always been profitably engaged with clients.  But freelancing is volatile.  We cannot put all our eggs in one basket.  So I need to spread my wings just a little bit more, explore other opportunities outside our comfort zone, and try to live on a single income.

That’s the plan.  And that’s a lot of pressure.

I’m not referring to being aggressive.

The pressure is actually on keeping up with the 365 challenge.  Ha ha!

And right now I’m doing it with grace.

May the force be with me to see this through.

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