NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 6

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill
• People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot. — Ai Yazawa
• It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• [The Apostles)...made the important discovery that many human perplexities are in reality nonexistent, that many pressing troubles are the creations of exaggerated fear and the offspring of augmented apprehension.
• Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine. — Ernest Hemingway
• Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life. - Eckhart Tolle
• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. — Rachel Naomi Remen
• You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.
• We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. — Diogenes of Sinope
• I believe the unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. -  Martin Luther King, Jr
• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth - Albert Einstein
• Science is engaged in the age long contest between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism.
• Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. — Stephen R. Covey
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Sir Winston Churchill