NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1323

 

• ·       "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens

  ·       “Even though heaven and earth shall pass away, my words of truth shall not.”

  ·       A great man is always willing to be little. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  ·       “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. ” ~ Helen Keller

  ·       “He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey.  He who blames himself is halfway there.  He who blames no one has arrived.” ~ Chinese Proverb

  ·       “The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.” ~ Chögyam Trungpa

  ·       To achieve peace, be peace.

  ·       "The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler

  ·       “Mortal man is neither a helpless slave of the inflexible sovereignty of an all-powerful God nor the victim of the hopeless fatality of a mechanistic cosmic determinism. Man is most truly the architect of his own eternal destiny.”

  ·       The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley

  ·       Today I will stop and ask, "How important is it?" When I find myself defending or trying to prove my point, I am in the process of learning to trust my own truth. When it feels right inside, I am seeing that it is all I need. - Ruth Fishel

  ·       “The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.”