How can we....

....make the world a better place? It has to be partly by recognising how much is wrong with it. But we also have to be objective. We won't help if we complain without taking action... nor if we rail against things that are actually understandable or even, in a slightly different frame of mind, acceptable. We have to make sure that we campaign only against the most severe transgressions.

Often we become more upset than we ought to be about a matter that really doesn't matter. Save your energy for a battle that's truly worth fighting.

We will not have peace by afterthought.   (Norman Cousins)

Sometimes, the only way....

....to get it right is to risk getting it wrong. If we try too hard to be wise, we risk making ourselves look foolish. Those who want perfection in all things will only ever fail.  The truly wise understand that there is no shame in accepting that you don't know the answer to a question and that, indeed, you may never be able to know it.

Only fools imagine that all the answers are attainable.

Love is never wasted or lost, the person may be gone, but their love is with us forever

Something to give away, and still keep....

Why limp....

.... through the door to the future, clutching a big bag of clothes that don't suit you, dragging behind you a cart of other people's problems that they have asked you to help carry? The door is only so wide. With all that baggage, you may not pass through.  You may have to wander round in a kind of eternal version of yesterday...

...until or unless you put down what you no longer need.

Make a commitment to be a master of change, rather than a victim of circumstances.     (Brian Tracy)

Sometimes, all that's needed....

....is a conversation. A thousand thoughts can be flying around in the back of the mind where also a hundred worries may lurk. Few of us can manage to remain clear-headed on our own. If we talk to the wrong person, those ideas get even more jumbled up and the hopes start attaching themselves to the

fears.

But then one simple process of dialogue with a like-minded individual can bring us all the insight and understanding that we have been hoping for.

People will hate you, rate you, break you and shake you. 

How strong you stand is what makes you.

Very rarely does stress....

....and pressure come from other people.  Virtually all of it comes from somewhere deep within ourselves. We react badly to expectations that we feel we must live up to. We push ourselves too far in an effort to meet these, and then others find us irritable at best.

They can't hear the thoughts in the back of our minds. Nor can they grasp why we see them as partly responsible for our stress. And, in a way, they are not.

Confidence isn't defined by walking into a room and measuring yourself against everyone in it and thinking that you're better than them.  

It's not having to compare yourself with anyone at all.