SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

MARCEL PROUST

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Swedish proverb

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.

ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

CONFUCIUS

Learning without thought is labour lost.
Thought without learning is perilous.

JOE GIRARD

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.

THOMAS CARLYLE

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle - wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

LAURENCE J. PETER

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

ANON

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

ARISTOTLE

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

NADINE STAIR

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How poor are they that have not patience.
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? (From Othello)

HERBERT HOOVER

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

DOROTHEA BRANDE

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Chinese Proverb

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.

FRANCIS BACON

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.


This week at EIGHTY PLUS FOUR (an octogenarian looks back) I look back to the 19th century when many Scots set off for the unknown to begin new lives in America.

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BUDDHA

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast. A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

ANON

Life lives, life dies,
Life laughs, life cries,
Life gives up and life tries,
But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.

PEARL S. BUCK

The young do not know enough to
be prudent, and therefore they attempt
the impossible - and achieve it,
generation after generation.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.


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ROBERT BENCHLEY

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

MICHELANGELO

The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.

WILLIAM JAMES

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.