NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 167

• “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”—Mary Lou Retton

• • "My soul is filled with content, and my heart overflows with the bliss of peaceful trust. I have no fear; I am free from anxiety. I dwell in security, and my enemies cannot alarm me." – Buddhism
• • “Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”—Lucille Ball
• • "The nature of God can best be understood by the revelation of the Father which Michael of Nebadon unfolded in his manifold teachings and in his superb mortal life in the flesh."
• • "To God there is no past, present, or future; all time is present at any given moment. He is the great and only I AM." 
• • “Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.”—Erik Weihenmayer
• • "The Miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. 
• It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under 
• the usual laws of time. In this sense it is timeless." 
• • “Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.”—Martin Luther King, Jr
• • “Freedom is never given; it is won.”—A. Phiilip Randolph
• • “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.”—Kid President (Robby Novak)
• • “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”—Mark Twain
• • I am patient, tolerant, and diplomatic. — Louise Hay
• • "The miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception. 
• It is a device for perception correction, effective quite apart 
• from either the degree or the direction of the error. 
• This is its true indiscriminateness."