NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 52

• Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is. — Marianne Williamson

• • Happiness and peace of mind follow pure thinking and virtuous living as the shadow follows the substance of material things. – Buddhism
• • Let the term 'faith' stand for the individual's relation to God rather than for the creedal formulation of what some group of mortals have been able to agree upon as a common religious attitude.
• • “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• • The goal of human self-realization should be spiritual, not material. The only realities worth striving for are divine, spiritual, and eternal.
• • Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? — Marianne Williamson
• • When you are inspired…dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. –Patanjali
• • Throughout the vicissitudes of life, remember always to love one another. Do not strive with men, even with unbelievers. Show mercy even to those who despitefully abuse you. - The Teachings of Jesus
• • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• • Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. — Alan Cohen
• • Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill like the sight thereof, 
• neither can creedal words inspire men's souls like the experience of knowing the presence of God.
• • Love is the rule of living within the kingdom-supreme devotion to God while loving your neighbor as yourself. - The Teachings of Jesus
• • Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. — Buddha
• • “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” — William Hazlitt
• • "The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day's work  do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God's."
• • "If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing some friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life."
• • Every beetle is a gazelle in the eye of its mother – Moorish proverb
• • A mother is not to be compared with another person. She is incomparable. – African proverb