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