NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1059

 

• ·       If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them.  - Confucius

  ·       "But one day . . . it came to me that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed." - Alice Walker

  ·       Share an interesting fact about yourself with someone you care about. —  Brooke

  ·       “Paradise is the home, and Havona the workshop and playground, of the finaliters. And every God-knowing mortal craves to be a finaliter.”

  ·       Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems. - Lama Yeshe

  ·       “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

  ·       “There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV

  ·       “Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.” ~ Tahereh Mafi

  ·       “Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.” ~ Pearl S. Buck