Shared Wisdom: More Quotations

I always enjoy sharing some of my favorite quotations.  They are usually words that have helped me through a situation or two.  Sometimes they have presented themselves as words of comfort and encouragement, sometimes as words of inspiration.  Frequently they have improved my understanding of a particular set of circumstances.  More often that not they have been “light bulb” words; words that have given me that “ah-ha” moment. 

No matter what the moment may have been, these words have been important enough to me to have caused me to write them down for future reference.  I hope you may find some gems of wisdom among the following quotations that will enlighten your heart and your day.

• You give but little when you give of your possessions.  It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.       (Kahlil Gibran)
• Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.    (Jesus Christ)
• Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.       (Thich Nhat Hanh)
• Faith is a desperate dive out of the sinking boat of human effort and a prayer that God will be there to pull us out of the water.     (Max Lucado)
• Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.  (American Indian Proverb)
• As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.      (Marian Anderson)
• If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself.  As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.  Thus he is a great and righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally.     (Meister Eckhart)
• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.    (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Encouragement is awesome.  It has the capacity .. to actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.    (Charles Swindoll)
• I have found that when I am willing to trust and follow my energy it leads me into relationships with people from whom I have the most to learn……. I don’t need to enter or stay in a relationship that is not good for me, but if I choose to leave I can still acknowledge the gift and the teaching I received.      (Shakti Gawain)
• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.      (Goethe)
• Death seems so wrong, dear Lord
  Couldn’t You have remedied it?
  Have you forgotten, dear child?
  There is Easter!!        (Ruth Harms Calkin)
• The uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.   (Gelsey Kirkland)
• If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.    (Mother Teresa)
• Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?  It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it’s such an interesting world.  It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything.     (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

And one final quotation to carry with you through the day, which also links with the posting I did yesterday Self Nurturing- Program Yourself Positive.

• Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.    (William James)

Have a wonderful and blessed day!