NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 260

• ·       "At noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger."
  ·       “It is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.” —Max De Pree
  ·       “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  ·       "The bread of heaven is that which comes down from God and gives eternal life to the men of the world. And when you say to me, Give us this living bread, I will answer: I am this bread of life." – Jesus
  ·       Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Gautama Buddha
  ·       "[The] golden rule takes on living qualities of spiritual realization on those higher levels of interpretation which cause the mortal sons of God to view this injunction of the Master as requiring them so to relate themselves to their fellows that they will receive the highest possible good as a result of the believer's contact with them."
  ·       Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil.- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  ·       Politics is not an exact science. – Otto von Bismack’
  ·       Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry and you have to blow your nose.
  ·       “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin