NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 962

 

• ·       Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde

  ·       "When we focus on only the external indications of aging, we forget the internal treasures that we accumulate with each year of our lives." - Jean Smith

  ·       “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.” – Cheryl Strayed

  ·       “Life is a great mystery. Is everybody a different person when they are with someone else?” – Louise Fitzhugh

  ·       “Why life? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.” – Ray Badbury

  ·       “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” – Walt Whitman

  ·       “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” – May Sarton

  ·       “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.” – Natalie Goldberg

  ·       “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” – Pema Chodron

  ·       “It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.”  - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  ·       “We must be courageous in speaking out on the issues that concern us… We will not allow ourselves to be silenced.” – Cathleen Miller

  ·       “As it turns out, we’re all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves.” – Finney Boylan