We can't deny it....

What do you want to do....

....when you grow up?   Now that's a question that, when you stop and think about it, It is as appropriate to ask of a 70-year-old, as a seven-year-old. We must all aspire to something if our lives are to have meaning. And no matter how many responsibilities we may have, we should never think of ourselves as having reached an age of full maturity.

 

There is always something more to learn, to achieve and to grow into.

People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours.

Can anybody tell me?.....

Finding fault is like....

....killing pheasants. It is not so difficult! These birds have an amazing propensity to put themselves in harm's way. There is much more skill involved in not hurting a pheasant, especially if you happen to be driving down a country road at the peak of their breeding season. 

Faults are all too easy to find. It is far more rewarding to hunt down things that are truly worthy of praise. There is nothing especially clever about criticism.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.    (John Wooden)

Society requires us....

....to be polite. We are taught from an early age to pick our words carefully and to phrase our questions delicately. We must say please and thank you. We must not speak openly about matters that may cause embarrassment. We must disguise our most intense emotions and pretend that we like people, even if we don't. Whilst a few of us break these rules, the majority strive to stick to them.

So how can we tell what anyone else is really thinking or feeling?

The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation.

Why waste all that money....

....on coffee? Why not buy caffeine tablets. A couple of those and you can have the jitters all day long without the need for milk, sugar or hazelnut flavoured syrup. Science has become very good at extracting the essence of natural substances.

It can't, though, isolate the vital ingredient in happiness. The recipe for that keeps changing. Even within each individual it alters with the passage of time.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.       (Mary Astell)

Are you sitting comfortably?....

....Well don't stay there for too long, you may get deep-vein thrombosis. So stand up - but not too quickly - it may induce vertigo. You can't be too careful, you know. Ah, but, you can. Ironically, it is often when we are unduly concerned about a potential danger that we end up inadvertently putting ourselves in harm's way.

We tense up in expectation of trouble and somehow this causes us to create it.

You can have everything in life you want, 

if you will just help other people get what they want.      (Zig Ziglar)