Patience is....

Don't bother to read....

....the words. Don't even look at the individual letters. Look at the spaces - the gaps. Read between the lines. Somewhere, hidden, there is a very important message. Try recording a tape of yourself reading it and then play it backwards! 

Or then again you might decide not to bother with any of that. You might decide to take at face value all you now see - and you might decide to trust it too. And you might find that this was a very good idea indeed.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.  (William Shakespeare)

There's love and there's love.....

....Relationships, by and large, involve conditional love. No matter how much one person loves another, they can usually bring themselves to stop if the other person behaves badly enough. A particularly tolerant soul may forgive more... but the kind of love that flows between two people, wonderful though it may be, is not the kind of love that makes the world go round.

That's love for life itself.














Great relationships aren't built in a day.  Great relationships are built daily.

When is a gain....

....just a loss in disguise? When we think that we are going to benefit from a development, when in fact it is going to cost us so much to take advantage of an apparent opportunity that we might be better off allowing it to pass us by. And when is a loss actually a gain? When we cannot yet see the hidden benefits to letting go of something that we see as an asset but which is actually the cause of many problems.

There are times when we need to look more closely at whatever it is we think we don't like the look of.

A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is dead energy. (Ruth Ross)

Feed the mind properly....

Real strength....

You are entitled to....

....your dream. You are also entitled to the chance to try to make your dream come true. You may not want to do this. You may decide that your dream is providing you with a very comfortable escape mechanism. Were it to become a reality, it might also become a liability. But that is a choice for you to make. And it should be made through discrimination, not defeatism.

If you are offered an opportunity to pursue your dream, don't be too scared to take it.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought. (Basho)