NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1164

 

• ·       Your soft place to land should inspire within you the mantra, “I can breathe here. I can relax here. I know I am safe here.”

  ·       "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  ·       “How do we sleep while our beds are burning?” ~ Midnight Oil

  ·       “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~ John Muir

  ·       “It’s funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man’s greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon’s desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
  ~ Jon Stewart

  ·       “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau