NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 14

• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. — William Arthur Ward
• We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river. - Eckhart Tolle
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — Thomas Edison
• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. — e. e. cummings
• What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. — Hal Boyle
• You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world and you will be something. “I cannot,” never accomplished anything; "I will try,” has wrought wonders.” —J. Hawes
• Since this inner life of man is truly creative, there rests upon each person the responsibility of choosing as to whether this creativity shall be spontaneous and wholly haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive.
• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw
• Even your olden prophets understood the eternal, never-beginning, never-ending, circular nature of the Universal Father ... He inhabits the present moment with all his absolute majesty and eternal greatness.
• You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit. Every ‘no’ will lead you to a ‘yes.’ — Suze Orman
•  You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The past is a ghost, the future is a dream and all we ever have is now. – Bill Cosby
• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. — Joseph Campbell
• Man is a creature of the soil, a child of nature; no matter how earnestly he may try to escape from the land, in the last reckoning he is certain to fail. 'Dust you are and to dust shall you return' is literally true of all mankind.