WORDS OF WISDOM 28.04.2020

“There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.” —Kurt Hahn

“From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.” —Mark Helprin

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” —Konrad Adenauer

“If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.” —Oprah Winfrey

“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” —Carl Sandburg

“The goal of childhood is to become an individual; the goal of adulthood is to give that individuality away. The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect.” —James W. Jones

“The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it.” —Katherine Whilehaen

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.” —Confucius

“Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.” —Sai Baba

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” —Jerry Gillies

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” —Jeremy Kitson

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mohandas

K. Gandhi

“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.” —

William F. Scolavino

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” —Leo C. Rosten

“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.” —Alexander the Great

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” —Donald A. Adams

“Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.” —Gail Pursell Elliott

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.

Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” —Patanjali

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” —Jerry Gillies