06/01

A fellow scientist visited Niels Bohr at his home and saw, to his amazement that Bohr, had fixed a horseshoe over the door for luck. ‘Surely, Niels, you don’t believe in that?’ he commented. ‘Of course not,’ Bohr replied. ‘But you see – the thing is that it works whether you believe in it or not.’
Neils Bohr was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of complementarity theory

When the Holy One created the first man, he took him and led him around all the trees of the Garden of Eden, and said to him: Behold my works, how beautiful, how splendid they are. All that I have created, I created for you. Take care that you do not become corrupt and thus destroy my world. For if you become corrupt, there will be no one after you to repair it.
Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:13 (Jewish Rabbinical writings)

Artwork at a friend’s house

The next day of your life is the first day of your life.
Greg Norman

Everyone has an innate destiny they are born to pursue.
Sanford McMurray

Never trust a skinny chef.
Kerry Greenwood (Author of Phryne Fisher and Corinne Chapman books)

Things are never as bad as you think they are:
They could always get worse.

It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
George Elliot

In every person is planted the seed and the capability to make a difference. This seed is your purpose, mission, calling, genius or life’s work
David Solomon

When you relax into who you are, all the fighting stops
Suzi Petrozzi

Far from knowing who I am
I discover myself daily.
Yollana Shore

The problem is not the problem
The problem is your attitude to the problem
Capt Jack Sparrow

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell

It is only when you see a mosquito land on your testicles that you finally realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
Lao-Tsu

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Everyone who got where they are had to begin where they were. Your opportunity for success is right in front of you.
Unknowncx

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far better than dictating demands.
Dan James

Fear kills creativity – the antidote is action.
Todd Sampson

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do & liking how you do it
Maya Angelou
I’d also add: Liking who you do it with

Chop your own wood and it’ll warm you twice.
Henry Ford

Be good, be kind, be careful
Richard Wilkins (Smooth FM)

The secret to happiness is not having more, it’s wanting less
Henry Ford

If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right
Adm. William H. McRaven
(Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World)

I find I’m enjoying what I’m doing, rather than just focusing on getting it done.
Jon Ellis (talking about life in post-corporate retirement)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happy wife, happy life
Happy husband, happy home

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
Simon Sinek

My prayer is that you will experience that which you wish for others.
For you: is that a blessing or a curse?

The moment I start to believe I’m as good as people seem to think I am, it would all be over
Rafael Nadal

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Frank Birch

Do not condemn the judgement of others because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dandemis

Life doesn’t happen TO us. It happens FOR us.
Josie Thomson

Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life…
because happiness is contagious.
Paulo Coelho

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller

Thoughts become things…
choose the good ones.
Mike Dooley

Something good will come of all things yet.
Jack Kerouac

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein

The horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Gough Whitlam

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.
Nietzsche

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Don’t strive to be happy.
Strive to be a person of integrity – happiness will be the result.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson

Done is better than perfect
Mark Zuckerberg

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
Dwight D Eisenhower

This body, that you are in, has been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond.
Mellen-Thomas Benedict

Don’t eat vegetables because they’re good for you. Eat vegetables because they’re gorgeous.
Jill Dupleix