NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 34

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Sir Winston Churchill

• • The world needs more firsthand religion. Even Christianity-the best of the religions of the twentieth century-is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand.
• • The entire organization of high spirits, angelic hosts, and midway fellows is enthusiastically devoted to the furtherance of the Paradise plan for the progressive ascension and perfection attainment of evolutionary mortals.
• • The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch
• • Minutes at the table don’t put on weight – it’s the seconds.
• • Mosquito: A small insect designed by God to make us think better of flies.
• • Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams.” —Denise Linn
• • The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain
• • Candidates for eternal life are practitioners of an invigorating and constructive technique for meeting all of the vicissitudes and harassments of mortal living. Every day a true believer lives, he finds it easier to do the right thing.
• • The Zoroastrians had a religion of morals; the Hindus a religion of metaphysics; the Confucianists a religion of ethics. Jesus lived a religion of service.
• • That thing that you do, after your day job, in your free time, too early in the morning, too late at night. That thing you read about, write about, think about, in fact fantasize about. That thing you do when you’re all alone and there’s no one to impress, nothing to prove, no money to be made, simply a passion to pursue. That’s it. That’s your thing. That’s your heart, your guide. That’s the thing you must, must do. — Jes Allen
• • Remember, there are two things you cannot run away from-God and yourself. Wherever you may go, you take with you yourself and the spirit of the heavenly Father which lives within your heart.
• • We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. — Randy Pausch
• • In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness. - Eckhart Tolle