Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
—American Indian Proverb
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
—American Indian Proverb
It is good to tell one’s heart.
—American Indian Proverb
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German Man of Letters, Critic
Knowledge that is not used is abused.
—American Indian Proverb
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
—American Indian Proverb
You already possess everything necessary to become great.
—American Indian Proverb
Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
—American Indian Proverb
One rain does not make a crop.
—American Indian Proverb
All dreams spin out from the same web.
—American Indian Proverb
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
—American Indian Proverb
A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
—American Indian Proverb
All who have died are equal.
—American Indian Proverb
We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.
—American Indian Proverb
It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
—American Indian Proverb
We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
—American Indian Proverb
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
—American Indian Proverb
Don’t you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English Novelist, Poet
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
—American Indian Proverb
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
Respect the gift and the giver.
—American Indian Proverb
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
—American Indian Proverb
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
—American Indian Proverb
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
—American Indian Proverb
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
—American Indian Proverb
Man has responsibility, not power.
—American Indian Proverb
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
—American Indian Proverb
Never sit while your seniors stand.
—American Indian Proverb
I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the end of the sky,
I have been to the end of the mountains,
I have found none that are not my friends.
—American Indian Proverb
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
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