Weekly Wisdom #43

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."  - Frederick Keong

Weekly Wisdom #42

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Weekly Wisdom #41

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Weekly Wisdom #40

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius

Weekly Wisdom #39

"Forever is composed of nows."  - Emily Dickinson

Weekly Wisdom #38

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Weekly Wisdom #37

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Weekly Wisdom #36

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”  - Elizabeth Stone  

Weekly Wisdom #35

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

Weekly Wisdom #34

"The earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekly Wisdom #33

“Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.” - Allan Lokos

Weekly Wisdom #32

"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down, 'happy'.  They told me that I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

Weekly Wisdom #31

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.  One is Evil – It is anger, fear, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

“The other is Good – It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

- Cherokee Legend

Weekly Wisdom #30

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”  - Dalai Lama XIV

Weekly Wisdom #29

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”   - Thich Nhat Hanh  

Weekly Wisdom #28

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Weekly Wisdom #27

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” -Dr. Seuss

Weekly Wisdom #26

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover.– Mark Twain

Weekly Wisdom #25

All we need, we already have.  All we want to be, we already are.  We are enough.

Weekly Wisdom #24

“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.” -― Maya Angelou