NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1

• The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. - Alan Ashley-Pitt
•  As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. – Albert Schweitzer
• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. – Anonymous
• Not everything that is forced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is forced. - James Baldwin
• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him discover it in himself. - Galileo Galilei
• The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. – Aristotle
• I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. – Sufi Proverb
• A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. – Chinese Proverb
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
•  A little revolution now and again is a good thing. – Thomas Jefferson
• I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. — Edward Everett Hale
• Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living. — Anonymous
• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings
• Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.— Nolan Bushnell
• The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. — Mike Dooley
• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
• When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. - George Bernard Shaw