Take some time out to contemplate the wise (or not so wise) words spoken by others.
Week commencing 7 March 2016
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
– Jimmy Dean
Week commencing 29 February 2016
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle
Week commencing 22 February 2016
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Week commencing 15 February 2016
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young
Week commencing 8 February 2016
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
– Albert Einstein
Week commencing 1 February 2016
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford
Week commencing 25 January 2016
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
– Groucho Marx
Week commencing 18 January 2016
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
– Ovid
Week commencing 11 January 2016
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
Week commencing 4 January 2016
Every man dies, but not every man really lives.
– William Wallace
Week commencing 14 December 2015
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
– Helen Keller
Week commencing 7 December 2015
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
– Elbert Hubbard
Week commencing 30 November 2015
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
– Sophia Loren
Week commencing 23 November 2015
Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.
– Anais Nin
Week commencing 16 November 2015
If not now, when will you begin living your life?
– Jack Borland
Week commencing 9 November 2015
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
– Elbert Hubbard
Week commencing 2 November 2015
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Week commencing 26 October 2015
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde
Week commencing 19 October 2015
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde
Week commencing 12 October 2015
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
– Les Brown
Week commencing 5 October 2015
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!
– Jonathan Winters
Week commencing 28 September 2015
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
– Robert Frost
Week commencing 21 September 2015
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
– Olin Miller
Week commencing 14 September 2015
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
– Timothy Leary
Week commencing 7 September 2015
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
– Erica Jong
Week commencing 31 August 2015
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
– Benjamin Franklin
Week commencing 24 August 2015
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
– Charles Gord
Week commencing 17 August 2015
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
– Bob Hope
Week commencing 10 August 2015
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
– BR Hayden
Week commencing 3 August 2015
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
– Harold V Melchert
Week commencing 27 July 2015
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach
Week commencing 20 July 2015
We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
– George Bernard Shaw
