NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 867

 

• ·       "We have the power to make this the best generation of humankind in the history of the world-or to make it the last." - John F. Kennedy

  ·       Teach me to make peace in my life.

  ·       "Civilization can never flourish, much less be established, until man has leisure to think, to plan, to imagine new and better ways of doing things."

  ·       Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them. - Seneca

  ·       "It takes a wise person to handle a lie; a fool had better remain honest." - Norman Douglas

  ·       Help me seek the good life in those things that are good.

  ·       "Never, even in the Corps of the Finality, will the creature metamorphose so far as to obliterate the personality trends that humans call male and female; always will these two basic variations of humankind continue to intrigue, stimulate, encourage, and assist each other."

  ·       A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve. - Marcus Aurelius

  ·       "Persons of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor." - John Gardner

  ·       May I express the paradox of sacrifice in my life.

  ·       Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. - Lou Holtz

  ·       I've learned in my life not only to count sheep but also that I can count to ten.

  ·       "In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion."