Thought For The Week – 2018

Welcome to 2018. May this year be the fulfilment of everything you’ve been working towards.

Dogs are people too.
Indra Gerhardy

In a time of speed, the integrity and intelligibility of our moral lives may well hinge on our capacity to remember that slower is most often best.
The Minefield – ABC Radio National

The road to perdition is paved with busy-ness.
The Minefield – ABC Radio National

Go to bed with a dream, wake up with a purpose.
Sign at Deli Central – cafe in Ulverstone

When you stop going after more than you need, you free up oceans of energy to appreciate and make the most of what you already have.
Author unknown

The older you get the more important it is not to act your age.
Ashleigh Brilliant

The positve thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Winston Churchill

The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people.
Al-Fudhayl ibn Iyyadh

What you ned isn’t always what you want.
Robert Jordan

Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

A second opinion is always important, especially when it’s mine.
Sister Monica Joan – Call The Midwife

If you gear a vioice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van Gogh

The only cure for cold feet is to hold them against the fire.
Dr Lydia Fonseca – The Good Karma Hospital

Success comes n cans,
not can’ts.
Anonymous

Bin your buts
Adapted from a sign on a cigarette butt recepticle on Fraser Island

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Maya Angelou

You can’t put off being young until you retire
Phillip Larkin

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing,
but it still beats total ignorance
Abigail Van Buren

As a job seeker, remember this; you only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
Robert Brault

Age considers,
youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.
Christopher Bryant

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Anonymous

Let us be kinder to one another.
Aldous Huxley

My wife and I understand each other perfectly:
if she doesn’t hear me, it’s because I’m speaking too softly.
If I don’t hear her, it’s because I’m not listening.

We are as important as we make other people feel.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Bumper sticker

Don’t be humble: you’re not that great.
Golda Meir

Youth is the time for the adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
Logan Pearson Smith

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognise and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore

The way you live your life is the way you leave your life.
Terri Irwin

When starting out, don’t worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

It’s easier for Australians to change Prime Ministers than shopping bags.
Comment on Facebook
Here’s a way for the ABC to save money; stopping spending money on comedies and just run political commentary – Australian politics, at the moment, is a farce. Indeed, if someone presented this as a script for a political satire it would probably be rejected as too far-fetched.

You’re not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you’ve met, she’s not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other.
Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Will it be a repetition of your past or will it be something new, fulfilling and satisfying? Only you can make it go either way.Happy Jewish New Year – wishing you all the best for 5779

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Max Ehrmann (Desiderata – 1927)

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) Pascal’s Wager

This is the season of endings and beginnings;
may your endings be with ease and grace and your beginnings bring new energy, purpose and meaning into your life.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.
You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

Responsibility = Response ability
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber

It’s OK not to be OK
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (Invictus Games 2018)

Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.
Dodinsky

God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Life’s Little Instruction Book)

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt