Category: Thought for the week

You can’t have the thrills of life without the pain of life.

Richard Osman (We Solve Murders) Signs of the Times Monday night is the beginning of the Jewish New Year – Rosh Hashana. To symbolise a sweet year we eat apple dipped in honey.
I’m so grateful: I can see the light at the end of the tunnel – and it isn’t a train coming!

Signs of the Times
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Signs of the Times
If you experience self-criticism, guilt, anguish, self-frustration… Rejoice! These emotions are the result of a deep sense of love, compassion, empathy and other positive attributes. We experience negative emotions when we feel we have let ourselves down and not lived up to our own standards. A psycho/sociopath does not experience these emotions. As Leonard Cohen said: “There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in”.

Signs of the Times
All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now.

Kahlil Gibran
I’ve discovered a new term:- Screaming fuckwittery. I understand this applies to situations such as: getting a hot coffee at McDonalds, putting it between your legs when you drive off, suing McDonalds for getting burnt, and winning; suing Blackmores because you overdosed on Vitamin B6; believing Palestinian propaganda, especially groups like ‘Gays for Gaza’. REALLY???
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Old Chinese proverb
No matter what the others try and sell you. It is the destination, not the journey [that matters].

László Tóth – The Brutalist
There are three types of people: the idiot, the fool and the wise person. The idiot does the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome. (According to Einstein this is the definition of insanity). The fool learns from their mistakes. The wise person learns from other people’s mistakes.
If I have six hours to cut down a tree, I will spend five sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln