12/01

Je suis Juif / Je suis Charlie

La vie est belle, et elle commence demain
“Life is beautiful, and it begins tomorrow.”
From Edith Hahn Beer’s book; “The Nazi Officer’s Wife – How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust”

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says:
I’m possible
Audrey Hepburn

Thoughts are the electric charge that goes out into the quantum field..feelings are the magnetic charge that draws in from the quantum field
David Solomon

There are only three things to learn: simplicity, patience and compassion
Lao Tzu

The only bad marketing campaign is the one that isn’t in the market
Andy Kyiet

Treating politics like a marketing exercise will only result in buyer’s remorse
Lenore Taylor

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Ralph Charell

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

First Leonard, now Terry. The best of mankind is being gathered in. BUT WE KNOW RESTING IN PEACE IS NOT BLOODY LIKELY IN TERRY’S CASE.
Vale Leonard Nimoy & Terry Pratchett

If I ever want something from my husband I make love to him and then he’ll do anything I want.
Robin – a lady in her 80s

People who nobody can imagine doing anything are often the ones who do things nobody can imagine
Reference to Alan Turing in the film The Imitation Game

I’ve noticed that the people who know least about a subject are often those who express their opinion most forcefully and adamantly

Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
Joseph Campbell

There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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One downmanship – if you’ve got a headache, I’ve got a migraine.
Andy Kyiet

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
Richard Branson

Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler
Roger Sessions attributing it to Albert Einstein

You will either go to prison or become a millionaire
Richard Branson’s school headmaster

It’s better to be heard well by one person than forgotten by five hundred
Robert Gerrish & Sam Leader: co-founders of Flying Solo

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

It’s not what you’ve got that’s important – it’s what you do with it that counts.
Edwin Harrould (my father)

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

I’ve got so much to do today that I’ll have to meditate for twice as long.
Mahatma Ghandi

If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.
Jonas Salk

Take care of your body.
It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn

Four words to remove from your vocabulary: Just, Try, Busy, Should

No-one ever becomes great and stays great all by themselves
Jen Harwood

Banks are the new tanks
Dr Natasha Andreadis (on her return from a recent trip to Greece)

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

It’s not a small world. It’s a big God.
Rabbi Shalom White

A man’s soul is the candle of God.
King Solomon – Proverbs 20:27

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
Søren Kierkegaard

You don’t understand something unless you can explain it to someone else

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
Alain de Botton

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better
Dr Steve Maraboli

Don’t worry about how far you have to go. Acknowledge yourself for how far you’ve already come.

If I am what I am because you are what you are, and you are what you are because I am what I am, then I am not I and you are not you
Kotzker Rebbe (1787-1859)

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln

A question that will change your life: What do you want to be known for?
Craig Rispin

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

When you look at the moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the moon a bit more often.
Alain de Botton

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
Leonardo da Vinci

Pray as if everything depends on God
Act as if everything depends on you

I was travelling in Egypt and didn’t post

I was travelling in Egypt and didn’t post

I was travelling in Egypt and didn’t post

Wishing you a joy-filled festive season and a wonder-ful 2016!