Surpassing Life’s Hurdles (Haiku Series #241)

Responding

Human element

Instinct joins intuition—

Finding solutions

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Connecting

Waiting at crossroads

Game’s intangible knowledge—

Patience now answers

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Succeeding

Flipping day’s chessboard

Applying lifetime of moves—

Evading checkmate

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Marianne Williamson Quotes

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Let us remember that the longer we live, the more we know, and the more we know, the more beautiful we are.

From Proverbs 10:14:  “The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.”

Marianne Williamson (born 1950) is an American author who has written 14 books (at last count).  

H. G. Wells Quotes

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Human history becomes more a race between education and catastrophe.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946) was a British novelist, journalist, and historian.  Many of his published works share a futuristic view, and this has earned him the distinction of being the “father of science fiction.”

Charles Hodge Quote

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When we are weak, then are we strong.  When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

From Ephesians 3:17-19:  “And that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.  I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was an American theologian and Christian teacher.

Matt Haig Quotes

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Between life and death, there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever.

Regrets don’t leave.  They weren’t mosquito bites.  They itch forever.

Matt Haig (born 1975) is an English writer and journalist.  Much of his writing focuses on novels with fictional themes for adults as well as children stories.

Charles Swindoll Quote

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It defies the human mind to find the depths of the mind of God.  We can plumb the depths of another’s mind.  But we cannot begin to scratch the surface of the unsearchable judgments of God.

From Romans 11:33-34:  “O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!”

Jim Kwik Quotes

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Remember that your mind is like a parachute–it only works when it’s open.

Knowledge x Action = Power

Jim Kwik (born 1973) is an American entrepreneur and author.  He is well-known for his speed-reading and memory techniques.