NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 884

 

• ·       Just do your best. Ignore the rest. - Maxime Lagacé

  ·       "[Jesus] did not long to escape from his earthly life; he mastered a technique of acceptably doing the Father's will while in the flesh. He attained an idealistic religious life in the very midst of a realistic world."

  ·       I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. - Albert Einstein

  ·       "Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." - H. A. Overstreet

  ·       “Our own worst enemy could never harm us as much as our own unwise thoughts.” ~ The Buddha

  ·       [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.' "

  ·       Bored people expect. Wise people accept. - Maxime Lagacé

  ·       It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

  ·       "One of the apostles once asked: 'Master, what should I do if a stranger forced me to carry his pack for a mile?' Jesus answered: 'If you can think of nothing more effectively positive to do, you can at least carry the pack a second mile. That will of a certainty challenge the unrighteous and ungodly stranger.'"