NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1086

 

• ·       “JUST before noon on Sunday, January 12, a.d. 27, Jesus called the apostles together for their ordination as public preachers of the gospel of the kingdom. At last the long-waited-for hour had come!”

  ·       Avoid the unhappy and unlucky. - Robert Greene

  ·       “Some people aren’t good at asking for help because they’re so used to being ‘the helper’. Throughout their life they’ve experienced an unbalanced give and take, so their instinct is usually, ‘I’ll figure it out on my own.’ The self reliance is all they’ve ever known.” ~ Toni Tone

  ·       “Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” ~ Brene Brown

  ·       The Bible tells us to love our neighbor and also to love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people. - G. K. Chesterton

  ·       “Man is a creature of the soil, a child of nature; no matter how earnestly he may try to escape from the land, in the last reckoning he is certain to fail. “Dust you are and to dust shall you return” is literally true of all mankind.”

  ·       More freedom is more empowering than more stuff. - Joshua Fields Millburn

  ·       It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. - Bertrand Russell

  ·       Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of striving to fulfill wishes of the material kind. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society. - Albert Einstein