NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 25

• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth - Albert Einstein
• ·         Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. - Mary Lou Retton
  ·         Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - Gail Devers
  ·         Set your sights high – the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. - Eileen Caddy
  ·         Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they’re going after what they think they can get. - Bob Proctor
  ·         Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
  ·         In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia, until we ultimately become enslaved by it. - Robert Heinlein
  ·         For it is in giving that we receive. — Saint Francis of Assisi
  ·         Prayer elevates man because it is a technique of progressing by the utilization of the ascending spiritual currents of the universe.
  ·         Gracious acceptance is an art—an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you. — Alexander McCall Smith
  ·         Mind knows quantity, reality, meanings. But quality - values - is felt. That which feels is the mutual creation of mind, which knows, and the associated spirit, which reality-izes.
  ·         May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright, happy hours. That stay with you all the year long.” —An Irish Toast
  ·         Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. - Oprah Winfrey
  ·         Light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemism, energy, and matter are-in origin, nature, and destiny-one and the same thing, together with other material realities as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
  ·         We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. - Orison Swett Marden
  ·         Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
  ·         Imagine how many epic individuals there would be in this world, if only we scripted and produced our lives like a movie studio. - Franscesca Banting
  ·         I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. — Edward Everett Hale