ROBERT MULLER

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

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LILY TOMLIN

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

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EPICTETUS

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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BILL COSBY

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

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Chinese Proverb

Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart.

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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GEORGE BURNS

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

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ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

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REMEZ SASSON

The difference between can and cannot is only three letters. Three letters that can shape your life's direction.

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OVID

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

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ANON

Life without purpose is barren indeed
There can't be a harvest unless you plant seed

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EARL GREY STEVENS

Confidence never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

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THOMAS EDISON

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.

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JAMES DENT

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it’s the only means.

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MARGARET THATCHER

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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WILLIAM DAVIS

The kind of humour I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

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ISAAC ASIMOV

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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An Irish Blessing

May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you happy.

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JIM HENSON

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

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MARY ANNE RADMACHER

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

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MARCUS AURELIUS

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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MAHATMA GANDHI

The future depends on what we do in the present.

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MARK TWAIN

Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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ANON

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

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RUPERT BROOKE

I know what things are good - friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

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ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

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DANNY KAYE

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

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L.M. HODGES

Whether one is twenty, forty, sixty, or eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along - life begins each morning! The greatest fact in life is that it is never too late to start again.

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

The ideals which have always filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth.

ANON

Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Till you find your dream.

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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JAMES BALDWIN

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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W.H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

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GEORGE LORIMER

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

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ANON

If we make the most of opportunities, opportunities will make the most of us.

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HELEN KELLER

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

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LAO-TZU

Stop trying to leave and you will arrive
Stop seeking and you will see
Stop running away and you will be found

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DON MIGUEL RUIZ

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

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ALEXANDRA STODDARD

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

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BERNARD- PAUL HEROUX

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.

BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others.

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H. STEIN

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

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ANON

Friends are flowers in the garden of life.

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MAX L. FORMAN

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

JOHN ANDREW HOLMES

There is no better exercise than the heart reaching down and lifting people up.

MARK TWAIN

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

ANON

Friendship is a living thing that lasts as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

MAYA ANGELOU

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

EPICURUS

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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KATHERINE MANSEFIELD

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Old Tennessee Saying

He that doesn't tooteth his own trumpet, doesn't get his trumpet tooted.

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BLOG NEWS
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The first post will be made on Friday 18th May.
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VICTOR HUGO

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Learn from yesterday, love for today and hope for tomorrow

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ALEXANDRA SMITH

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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Spanish Proverb

He who gossips with you will also gossip about you.

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LAO-TZU

Whether you are a gem in the royal court or a stone on a common path, if you accept your part with humility the power of the universe will be yours.

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MOTHER TERESA

Life is a promise - fulfill it.

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ANON

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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JONATHAN WINTERS

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that’s why they call it the present.

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HOWARD SCHUTZ

Dream more than others think practical
Expect more than others think possible

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a new series begins here
on
Tuesday 1st May

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ROBERT BENCHLEY

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

ELIE WIESEL

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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ANON

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.

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OSCAR WILDE

Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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JOHN BUCHAN

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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HORACE

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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E.E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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MOTHER TERESA

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

ANON

Fear less, hope more.
Whine less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more.
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.

JOHN BARRYMORE

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

ANTON CHEKHOV

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.

Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY

Love does not exist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

MARK TWAIN

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

GEORGE ASAF

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

[from the song “Pack up your troubles”]

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

If you don't like the way the world is, change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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Covering a 5-story building, a mural created by 5 artists working round the clock for 16 days,
plus 7 other interesting pictures
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MAHATMA GANDHI

Freedom is not worth having unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

ANON

If you’re willing to walk the path of the dreamer, anything is possible.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth and be found out by accident.

This week on the Visual Image Site -
The largest pearl in the world, a harvester pulled by 20 horses and other striking images
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LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

GEORGE HERBERT

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Chinese Proverb

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

JULIUS CAESAR

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see, than about what they can.

POETRY FOR PLEASURE
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