Gems of Wisdom

Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds are designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.

— Emmanuel

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

— George Bernard Shaw

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

— Albert Schweitzer

To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals—this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from life.

— Sir William Osler

You are used to listening to the buzz of the world, but now is the time to develop
the inner ear that listens to the inner world. It is time to have a foot in each world and it can be done.

— St. Bartholomew

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to
the eye.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

— E.F. Schumacher