NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 17

• How spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle
• There is original endowment of adaptation in living things and beings ... in every living organism-material or spiritual-there is an insatiable craving for the attainment of ever-increasing perfection...
• Middle age is when your memory is short, your experience is long, your stamina is low and your forehead higher.
• Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. — Joe Paterno
• There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy - Ralph Blum
• Cry – forgive – learn - move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. - Steve Maraboli
• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. - Vince Lombardi
• In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit - Albert Schweitzer
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin
• Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. - Tim O'Reilly
• I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. - Nelson Mandela
• The most beautiful thing you'll ever do is an expression of something that's already with you. - Sandra Gallagher
• Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it. - Cullen Hightower
• Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James
• Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around every once in awhile, you could miss it. - John Hughes
• Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. - Muhammad Ali
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa
• There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing. - Billy Graham
• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Rilke
• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lip. - Oliver Goldsmith