A little wisdom

“Experience is yesterday’s answer to today’s problems.” — Anonymous

“Footprints in the sands of time are never made by sitting down.” — Anonymous

“An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.” — Anonymous

“A lot of good could be accomplished in this world if nobody cared who got the credit.” — Anonymous

“I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.” — Mother Teresa, My Life for the Poor

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” — Julie Cameron, The Artist’s Way

I believe it was Ernest Hemingway who first used the phrase, “growing strong in the broken places.” The idea behind these words is that where a bone is broken and heals, it becomes the strongest part of the bone.

The same is true of our broken places — where we have been hurt, have fallen or failed, or are afraid. This is certainly true in helping other people. They are helped not through our brilliant logic or persuasive speech, but through the sharing of our struggles, failures, disappointments, and loses and how we have overcome. It is a case of one beggar who has found bread showing other beggars where they can find bread, too.