Building wisdom

 God is Greater . . .

 Christ paid a debt He did not owe,

because we owed a debt we could not pay.

 It is as much the business of a physician to alleviate pain . . .

as to cure the diseases.

-- John Gregory (1725-1773), "Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician"

 There is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go,

and that is to travel that way yourself.

-- Abraham Lincoln

 It takes all kinds of people to make up the world.

-- Gerald W. Kelley, math teacher, Harrison (Ark.) High School

 Opportunity + Ability = Responsibility

 Stop giving directions;

just say, "Follow me."

 There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man.

The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

-- Hindu proverb

 Love is a temporary emotional condition brought on by a

physical reaction to a biological urge. [too many think]

-- Abigail Van Buren

Pride is our national heritage, even those people who have overcome it, manage nevertheless to be proud of their humility

-- Mark Twain

 The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient

while nature cures the disease.

-- Voltaire

 Prayer:

Key of the Day,

Lock of the Night

 If two people agree on everything,

only one person is doing the thinking.

 If you can't have what you want,

change your mind.

 No Jesus = No Peace

Know Jesus = Know Peace

 He who implants courage in the human soul is the best physician.

-- Karl von Knebel

 You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean itself does not become dirty

-- Mohandas Gandhi

 Love makes burdens lighter, because you divide them. It makes joys more intense, because you share them.

 The happiest people are those who are too busy to wonder whether they are or not

 People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

 Happiness is only found by those who are striving to make others happy

 All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

 Optimism is man's passport to a better tomorrow.

 Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the Neglected opportunity.

-- Arabian proverb

 Were it not for the perpetual succession of rebellious sons, we would still be gnawing bones in the caves of Mousterian man.

-- Dean Sperry of Harvard

 Doing nothing is the most tiresome thing in the world because it is impossible to quit and take a rest.

 Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

-- Franz Kafka

 One must have a dream if one is to have a dream come true

-- from the musical "South Pacific"

  Vice, like virtue, advances by degrees.

-- Jean Racine

The purpose of the doctor:

To cure sometimes,

To relieve often, To comfort always.

-- Socrates

  The young close their ears to our advice and open their eyes to our example

  It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors

-- Plutarch (AD 46-120)

Good judgment comes from experience and, unfortunately, experience often come from bad judgment.

 Often we need not so much to be taught as to be reminded.

-- C. S. Lewis

Life is full of surprises. Dont insis on everthing being predictable

 Every day is fishing day; not every day is a catching day.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel

 The seven states of man:

spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills.