Thursday, 3 June 2021

NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 427

 

  • ·       “Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” — Jack Layton

    ·       "The experience of religion eventually results in the certain consciousness of God and in the undoubted assurance of the survival of the believing personality."

    ·       "When a person has pity on all living creatures, only then is one noble." - Buddhist Saying

    ·       “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” — William James

    ·       "Genuine spiritual faith (true moral consciousness) ... lives and triumphs irrespective of the crushing overload of the complex and partial civilizations of modern times."

    ·       "The measure of a person is what he or she does with power." - Pittacus of Mytilene

    ·       “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet

    ·       "And then Jesus said: 'Be not constantly overanxious about your common needs. Be not apprehensive concerning the problems of your earthly existence, but in all these things by prayer and supplication, with the spirit of sincere thanksgiving, let your needs be spread out before your Father who is in heaven.' ”

    ·       "Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy, based upon excellence of performance." - James Bryant Conant


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