NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 7

• Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. — L. J. Isham
• We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. - Helen Keller
• Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas
• The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each according to his own talent. - Paulo Coelho
• Neither science, philosophy, nor theology can validate the personality of God. Only the personal experience of the faith sons of the heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the personality of God
• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. — Emily Post
• In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility - Joseph Conrad
• The missing ingredient is wisdom, which actually is a spiritual dimension and is best defined as "the correct use of the truth in the knowledge which we have."
• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.  — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -  Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. — Unknown
• The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare. - Bobby Knight
• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. – Confucius
• You have to create the quiet to be able to listen to the very faint voice of your intuition. – Jon Favreau
• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. — Margaret Walker
• Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling spirit. - Teachings of Jesus