SHORT SAYINGS, QUOTATIONS AND ANECDOTESSHORT SAYINGS, QUOTATIONS AND ANECDOTES
"When we appear before the Throne of Christ, He will ask to see our wounds. And if we have none, then He will say, "Was NOTHING worth struggling for?"
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"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
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On the Internet this is what one search engine brought up
Search for "Self- Esteem"= 4, 636,512 pages.
Search for "God"= 2, 160, 233 pages.
Does this mean that when there is too much self, there is no room for God?
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Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.
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Mahatma Ghandi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person. Even when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. Furthermore, due to his diet, he wound up with very bad breath. Therefore: he came to be known as a (wait for it ...):
"Super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "I might have entered the ministry if certain clergymen I knew had not looked and acted so much like undertakers."
And Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote in his diary, "I have been to church today, and am not depressed.
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MERGERS: Here are some possibilities.
If Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merged they would become...Hale Mary Fuller Grace.
If Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler Crackers merge they would become...Polly-Warner-Cracker.If 3M and Goodyear merge they would become...MMMGood.
If John Deere and Abitibi-Price merged they would become...Deere Abi.
If Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining merged they would become...Zip Audi Do Da.
How about Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil merging to become...Honey I'm Home.
Or Denison Mines, and Alliance and Metal Mining merging to become...Mine, All Mine.
Knott's Berry Farm and the National Organization for Women could merge to become...Knott NOW!*
The heart has its reasons, which the reason cannot understand."
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On Achievement
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense. Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
Inventor Cited in BITS & PIECESBite off more than you can chew,
then chew it.
Plan more than you can do,
then do it.
Point your arrow at a star,
take your aim, and there you are.
Arrange more time than you can spare,
then spare it.
Take on more than you can bear,
then bear it.
Plan your castle in the air,
then build a ship to take you there.Cited in More of...The Best of BITS & PIECES
On Change
Life is change...
Growth is optional...
Choose wisely... Karen Kaiser Clark Writer Cited in BITS & PIECESMarkets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
But change is not always sudden and dramatic, and the changes that can do the most harm are those that we don't see coming. Consider the story of the frog that was dropped into a pan of hot water. The frog immediately reacted to the heat by jumping out of the pan.
Another frog was put into a pan of cold water on a stove. The burner beneath the pan was turned on low, then the heat was gradually increased so the temperature of the water rose only a degree at a time. Change was occurring, but because it was gradual the frog accepted it and stayed in the pan and was boiled.
In a way, we're all in the same pan. We react immediately to dramatic changes, but we run the risk of getting cooked if we fail to notice the little, slow changes occurring around us.
Cited in The Best of BITS & PIECES
On Failure
THE QUESTION: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Robert Schuller Religious leader Cited in BITS & PIECESOne of the key characteristics of successful people is how they view failure. Successful people rarely see failure as fatal; they see it as feedback. When they don't get the desired result, they learn from the experience and try, try, again.
The most successful authors, inventors, actors, etc., have developed the ability to deal with massive amounts of rejection. High achievers rarely think of failure as an end in itself. Instead, they believe in delayed success. A loser says, "I can't do it," while a winner says, "I can't do it yet."
Rob Gilbert Editor, Bits & Pieces Cited in More of...the Best of BITS & PIECES
On Fear
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) Writer Cited in BITS & PIECES
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa
Cited in More of...The Best of BITS & PIECES
On Laughter
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over but showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) Humorist Cited in BITS & PIECESA book issued by the Army years ago gave all manner of advice to noncommissioned officers. It even tells how to make men who have quarreled friends again. The men are put to washing the same window, one outside, the other inside. Looking at each other, they soon have to laugh and all is forgotten. It works; I have tried it.
Ludwig Bemelmans Cited in The Best of BITS & PIECES
On Motivation
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Bob Nelson Writer Cited in BITS & PIECESThere was once a dog who boasted to his canine friends that he could run faster than anyone. One day he chased a rabbit and failed to catch it. His friends ridiculed him. "All right," said the dog, "I did not make good on my boast. But remember, the rabbit was running for his life and I was only running for my dinner." Incentive is all-important in motivation. Cited in The Best of BITS & PIECES
On Problems
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles Kettering Cited in The Best of BITS & PIECESProblems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally or spiritually. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challenge and encourage the human capacity to solve problems.
M. Scott Peck Psychiatrist and writer Cited in BITS & PIECES
On Truth
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Writer and humorist Cited in More of...The Best of BITS & PIECES
We must love them both - those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Theologian and philosopher Cited in BITS & PIECESMore short quotations
One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Philosopher and economistIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs (1837-1921) Naturalist and writerPower is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor PhilanthropistThe most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive...and begin to act accordingly.
Shakti Gawain WriterInstant gratification takes too long.
Carrie Fisher Writer and actressWhen you have a gift to offer, the world will make room for you. You must have patience and keep the faith.
Tyler Perry PlaywrightWe must move beyond tolerance, beyond acceptance, to celebration of our diversity. Only in celebration do we truly embrace the gifts we each are, and empower our own lives with the gifts of others.
Jim Chandler ClergymanOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) WriterHope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Jean Kerr Writer and playwrightThe human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990) WriterHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) WriterParadise is where I am.
Voltaire (1694-1778) HistorianLife is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy (1778-1829) ChemistLove doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones HumoristLove that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) Religious leaderExperience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) WriterEducation is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger Singer and composerWe have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) WriterIf you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1893-1979) ActorEverything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal, and urges toward new pleasures.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) ClergymanIn the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) WriterNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. WriterOne 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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) WriterIf you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.
Dan Millman Writer and speakerThe truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young (1921-1971) Civil rights leaderYou don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
Joan Baez Folk singer and political activistIt isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) Israeli Prime Minister