NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 53

·         There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it. – Chinese proverb

• ·         The greatest love I a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s. – Polish proverb
  ·         The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. – J.H. Boetcher
  ·         Social change is better achieved by being for something that against something. – Helene Gayle
  ·         The smile is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge
  ·         For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan
  ·         In the 3 words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It Goes On. – Robert Frost
  ·         A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. – Joan Walsh Anglund
  ·         "A vital and vigorous performance of faith ... entitles mortal man to affirm the personal possession and spiritual reality of that crowning endowment of human nature, religious experience."
  ·         “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.” — Unknown
  ·         "Genuine spiritual faith ... maintains a mysterious poise and composure of personality in the face of maltreatment and the rankest injustice."
  ·         True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done. — John Wayne
  ·         "Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences."
  ·         “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
  – Dr. Wayne W Dyer
  ·         “Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you’re an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.”
  ·         Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T.S. Eliot
  ·         Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day-in, day-out. Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. — Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth
  ·         The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  ·         "The universe is not wound up like a clock to run just so long and then cease to function; all things are constantly being renewed. The Father unceasingly pours forth energy, light, and life."