NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 566

 

• ·       “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” - Brené Brown

  ·       "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want in life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein

  ·       "When both science and religion become less dogmatic and more tolerant of criticism, philosophy will then begin to achieve unity in the intelligent comprehension of the universe."

  ·       You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.  - Winston Churchill

  ·       Resilience: the art of caring for the right things. - Maxime Lagacé

  ·       "Economic necessities tie man up with reality, and personal religious experience brings this same man face to face with the eternal realities of an ever-expanding and progressing cosmic citizenship."

  ·       “At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.” - Paulo Coelho