“Ancient wisdom is a present blessing.”— Matshona Dhliwayo Related Quotes “Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.”— Robin Hobb “Our culture reasons that because we fell there is not enough time, we should increase our pace, multitask, and fit more into our already overbooked days. But even though it is counterintuitive to popular wisdom, perhaps the more effective response to the limits of time is to live more fully in the moment, to savor it and expand it.”— Carrie Newcomer “Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”— Jean de La Fontaine