Dear God,
let my heart grasp
the profound wisdom
with
which You created the world.
Help me understand
that life’s difficulties
are
in fact her opportunities;
life’s endings
are also her beginnings;
life’s
disappointments
are her finest teachers.
-Rebbe Nachman, The
Gentle Weapon
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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