NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 284

• ·       “Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.” —Helen Keller
  ·       "As your star students scan the heavens, they will ... seldom detect evidence of the formation of those small, nonluminous collections of matter which serve as inhabited planets, the most important of the vast material creations."
  ·       “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” —Richard Wagner
  ·       "[Jesus] quoted from the Scriptures on this occasion, saying: 'It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to the name of the Most High, to acknowledge his loving-kindness every morning and his faithfulness every night, for God has made me glad through his work. In everything I will give thanks according to the will of God.' "
  ·       Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Kahlil Gibran
  ·       “Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it’s meant to take you.” —Jonathan Groff
  ·       "If I hear your prayers, it is because you come before me with a clean heart, free from falsehood and hypocrisy, with a soul which reflects truth like a mirror."  - Shinto
  ·       Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
  ·       “Joy; the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” —David Steindl-Rast
  ·       "Kingdom builders must be undoubting of the truth of the gospel of eternal salvation."
  ·       When a man has pity on all living creatures, then only is he noble. -Gautama Buddha
  ·       “We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” —Joseph Campbell
  ·       "As a reality in human spiritual experience God is not a mystery. But when an attempt is made to make plain the realities of the spirit world to the physical minds of the material order, mystery appears."