NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 9

• As your star students scan the heavens, they will ... seldom detect evidence of the formation of those small, nonluminous collections of matter which serve as inhabited planets, the most important of the vast material creations.
• If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. — John R. Wooden
• Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
• For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.  — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
• If I hear your prayers, it is because you come before me with a clean heart, free from falsehood and hypocrisy, with a soul which reflects truth like a mirror. – Shinto
• When a man has pity on all living creatures, then only is he noble. - Gautama Buddha
• Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.” — Deepak Chopra
• You are not facers of reality. You are creators of reality. – Abraham
• Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. — Moliere
• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A. A. Milne
• Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen
• When a human being chooses eternal survival, he is cocreating destiny; and in the life of this ascending mortal the finite God finds an increased measure of personality self-realization and an enlargement of experiential sovereignty.
• The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived. – Paulo Coelho
• The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy
• The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it.
• What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. - Eckhart Tolle