NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1517

 

• ·       Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present – thoughtfully, justly. - Marcus Aurelius

  ·       There is a paradox in pride: It make some ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Colton

  ·       Practice a little bit of self-care today. —Brooke

  ·       “There is a reality in religious experience that is proportional to the spiritual content, and such a reality is transcendent to reason, science, philosophy, wisdom, and all other human achievements.”

  ·       A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. - Shannon K. Butcher

  ·       Celebrate nature! —Brooke

  ·       “True religion is a wholehearted devotion to some reality which the religionist deems to be of supreme value to himself and for all mankind.”

  ·       To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. - Dogen

  ·       "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift

  ·       “Religionists are of no more value in the tasks of social reconstruction than nonreligionists except in so far as their religion has conferred upon them enhanced cosmic foresight and endowed them with that superior social wisdom which is born of the sincere desire to love God supremely and to love every man as a brother in the heavenly kingdom.”

  ·       The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. - Confucius