NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 4

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. – Mark Twain
• I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead - tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx
• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.  — John Muir
• The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.  — Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]
• The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly - Corra Harris
• Nothing lasts forever—not even your troubles. — Arnold H. Glasow
• So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela
• Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation. — Denis Waitley
• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life. — John Burroughs
• Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. - Philip B. Crosby
• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. — Rachel Carson
• Knowledge can be had by education, but wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through experience and by men and women who are innately intelligent.
• Conscience is not a divine voice speaking to the human soul...it simply represents the humanly conceived ideal of reaction in any given set of circumstances.
• Surrender to what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.  — Sonia Ricotti
• Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
• You aspire to do great things? Begin with little ones. - Augustine of Hippo