Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
by Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Sayings by Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Advice Sayings
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Ask Sayings
We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
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Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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I congratulate myself warmly for each accomplishment,
then ask, "What's next?
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Know that you can have whatever you want,
when you ask from a compassionate heart.
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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Every day is the perfect day to ask yourself
questions about your life goals,
and how you plan to address those goals.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
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Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
- John 16:24
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Demand, and my answer is NO.
Ask gently, and I am honored to serve.
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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Affirmation:
I congratulate myself warmly for each accomplishment,
then ask, "What's next?"
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Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Already Sayings
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
When we have arrived at the question,
the answer is already near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Our journey into consciousness of wealth
begins with the realization that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Know Sayings
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that love conquers fear.
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Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
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Know that love has no limits.
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