NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 2

• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. – John Muir
• Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. – Feodor Dostoyevsky
• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown
• People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. -  John Miller
• You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that, let it take you. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. — Gertrude Stein
• It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
• The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves. - Carl Holmes
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  — Mark Twain
• When people are made to feel secure and important and appreciated, it will no longer be necessary for them to whittle down others in order to seem bigger by comparison. - Virginia Arcastle
• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh-at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.  — Gilda Radner
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
• If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you’ll be amazed at what you can do. — Nido Qubein
• Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. — Henry David Thoreau
• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... — Theodor Seuss Geisel
• There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing. — Deborah Smith