“Wisdom is the subtlety of knowing which rules to bend and which rules to break”

Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Who created rules? Humans. Guess what? I'm a human being, too. I can make my own rules, and be happy in my own way

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.