NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 12

• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. — Henry van Dyke
• While your religion is a matter of personal experience, it is most important that you should be exposed to the knowledge of a vast number of other religious experiences (the diverse interpretations of other and diverse mortals) to the end that you may prevent your religious life from becoming egocentric-circumscribed, selfish, and unsocial.
• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. — Anne Lamott
• Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret to life is to "die before you die" -- and find that there is no death. - Eckhart Tolle
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Jim Rohn
• Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and to. - Emanuel Swedenborg
• You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius
• Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. - Willis R. Whitney
• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader. - Dolly Parton
• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John Kennedy
• You're never beaten until you admit it. - George Patton
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. - Henry Ward Beecher
• For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them. - Nelson Mandela
• It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. — Richard Paul Evans
• The universes of time and space are gradual in development; the progression of life-terrestrial or celestial-is neither arbitrary nor magical. Cosmic evolution may not always be understandable (predictable), but it is strictly nonaccidental.