A funny thing....

....happens to people in love. They find their capacity to care is seemingly limitless. Even if, prior to the experience, a person or situation hardly mattered, suddenly it matters more than anything. Love and concern are not the only emotions that can be 'self-replenishing'. 

Our reserves of compassion, patience, tolerance and kindness are inexhaustible if we only allow them to be.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being

superior to your former self. (Ernest Hemingway)

They say....

.....'Time and tide wait for no man.' That is so true, and these powerful natural forces wait for no woman, either. The reference books date this phrase to the 14th century, but it is hard to imagine that, prior to this, they either had no such saying or it didn't apply. If only we had a time machine, we could go back and check.

Meanwhile, with no such facility, the risk could be in expending too much energy dwelling on a past you cannot alter, is that you may miss the chance to seize your next big real chance.

Forever is composed of nows.    (Emily Dickinson)

Let's have a....

They say moment..... 

They say 'Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.' So, if you want to enjoy life more, should you stop making plans? No. Experiences are usually richer when our days contain a little space for spontaneity. Plans, though, can be rewarding to make and enjoyable to stick to. We just have to remember that they won't always work out and that we need to be philosophical when they don't.

If your plans are unravelling a little. Don't worry. Just reweave the threads.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.   (Leo Buscaglia)

Each breath....

....you take is an affirmation of your own existence... and of your own importance. Fortunately, you don't need a license to breathe. Nor is there a tax on this process - well, not yet anyway. It's about the one process in your life that nobody can boss you around over. So enjoy it. Allow yourself that luxury. And then, having granted yourself the right to do that much at least, look around at what else is happening.

You matter. You count. You have a right, at all times, to be heard... to be respected, to be proud of yourself.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

A little more...

....than 100 years ago, an amazing event took place amid the carnage of the First World War. At Christmas, British and German troops stopped shooting. They went over to each other's trenches and exchanged seasonal gifts. Some even sang carols and played football. The next day, they got back into their positions and continued with the carnage. Stories like this often leave us wondering whether to laugh or cry.



Through our choices and our actions, we can take what is bad and make it good.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up 

in order to exist at all.      (William Faulkner)

History is peppered....

....with tales of famous battles. Those who compile the chronicles, name the winners and the losers with great certainty. But that hardly does justice to the immense sense of loss suffered by either side whenever they incur so much as a single casualty. In war, there are no winners. Indeed, the outcome of any conflict can only involve stress and sorrow for every participant.

The only true victory is a compromise, one that allows all to feel as if they have won something. Something we should always remember.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Let's discuss....

....a hypothetical question. You are a passenger in a vehicle. The driver is reversing round a tight difficult corner. You can see what they can't see, a wall very close to your side. So, should you keep quiet and be polite because you don't want to be a backseat driver? Or attempt a quick, gentle word like, 'You have noticed this, haven't you?'






And if the wall does get hit and you have not said a word, whose fault would it be?

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)