04/01

Happy New Year – may 2016 be filled with joy, happiness, success and fulfillment in all your undertakings.

When you confront your greatest fear
you meet your greatest freedom
Lorna Patten

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Come up with a smiling face, It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there–that’s disgrace.
Edward Vance Cooke

Staff employment criteria: Can they do it? Will they do it? Would I like to invite them into my home?

A fella who’s never made a mistake has never made anything
Ralph Affleck

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Hyman Schachtel

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King

If G-d is your co-pilot, change seats.
Sign outside a church

If you focus on doing the right thing now, the future will take care of itself.
Ishita Katyal (10 year old opening speaker at TED 2016)

If you hold opposites together in your mind you will suspend your normal thinking and allow intelligence beyond rational thought to create a new form.
Niels Bohr (The Art of Genius – 1998)

Be mindful not mind-full
Danita Needleman

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.
Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
Glenda Jackson

A fool learns from his own mistakes.
The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von Bismarck

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Dolly Parton

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Mary Shelley

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re OK, who watches out for you and wants the very best for you, don’t let them go.
Keep them close and don’t take them for granted.
People like that are hard to find.
Unknown author

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

Generosity is the best garnish.
Marco Pierre White

If G-d’s not as close as He was, who’s moved?
Sign outside a church

A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt
Dutch proverb

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head
Terry Pratchett

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

You’ll find that the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you fail and keep trying. You won’t be judged by the number of times you fail, but by the number of times you succeed.
Tom Hopkins

Why go out on a limb? Because that’s where the fruit is.
Will Rogers

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.
Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
Roger de Rabutin de Bussy

How you make other people feel says a lot about who you are.

Just like changes of the seasons, we are constantly evolving and growing – becoming better or bitter by these changes that occur in our lives. The choice is ultimately ours.
Josie Thomson

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.
Alfred Wainwright

here is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach: “Illusions – The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
Mary Anne Radmacher

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw

on’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
Jack Canfield

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
Stewart B Johnson

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Wisdom of the Tasmanian Pioneers

Feed the troops on victory.
John Monash

If you’re working on something you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs

I’m not so sure about an inner child, but I have an inner idiot that surfaces every now and then.
Anon (outside Perpendicular Cafe in Penguin)

When you’re at the peak of your success – change.
Rachel White

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lesson of failure.
Bill Gates

Marriage: It’s not about finding the person you want to live with, but finding the person you can’t live without.
Marriage ceremony

When you go out there you don’t get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what’s important. You come home to yourself.
Peter Dombrovskis – Tasmanian wilderness photographer

I get pleasure from my grandchildren twice – once when they come and once when they go.
Lady Jakobovits

There are always plenty of good, sensible, logical, rational reasons NOT to do something. The trick is to find the one compelling (usually illogical and/or irrational) reason to DO it.