NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 551

 

• ·       “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens

  ·       “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” – Charles Dickens

  ·       “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on it being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” – Charles Dickens

  ·       “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” ~ Robert H. Schuller

  ·       "The faith acceptance of the truth of God enables man to escape from the circumscribed confines of material limitations and affords him a rational hope of achieving safe conduct from the material realm, whereon is death, to the spiritual realm, wherein is life eternal."

  ·       Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires. - The Ancient Sage

  ·       Music happens between the notes. - Igor Stravinsky

  ·       "[Jesus] is your elder brother who, in the flesh, makes known to you a Being of infinite attributes whom not even the celestial hosts can presume fully to understand. But all of this must consist in the personal experience of the individual believer."