Life in a day
A thought for every day in between the business of life
Thursday 31 December 2009
Genuine beginnings ...
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even if they are brought
to our attention by external opportunities.
William Bridges
The Raven Foundation
Wednesday 30 December 2009
Flowers are words ...
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
Quentin Crisp
Tuesday 29 December 2009
.... choice
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
Monday 28 December 2009
A friend ....
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The Raven Foundation
Sunday 27 December 2009
Reality ...
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Saturday 26 December 2009
... can spring be far behind?
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Friday 25 December 2009
A good conscience ...
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
Thursday 24 December 2009
Christmas ....
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Wednesday 23 December 2009
Water ...
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain
Tuesday 22 December 2009
Happiness....
Happiness is the sense that one matters.
Sarah Trimmer
Monday 21 December 2009
One kind word ...
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb
Sunday 20 December 2009
Tomorrow.....
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking
about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
Saturday 19 December 2009
The aging process ....
The aging process has got you firmly in its grasp if you never get
the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larsen
Friday 18 December 2009
Bad weather ...
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Tom Lehrer
Thursday 17 December 2009
Adversity ....
As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.
Ovid
Wednesday 16 December 2009
Happiness...
Happiness is realising that nothing is too important.
Antonio Gala
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Let your life dance ...
Let your life dance on the edges of time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Monday 14 December 2009
Nature .....
Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and
whose circumference is nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
Sunday 13 December 2009
In the depth of winter ...
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within
me lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Saturday 12 December 2009
The flowers anew ....
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
But faded beauty has no second spring.
Ambrose Philips
Friday 11 December 2009
Great joys....
Great joys, like griefs, are silent.
Shackerley Marmion
Thursday 10 December 2009
Awaken yourself ...
Awaken yourself to the power of your own mind to make things happen.
Robin Sharma
Wednesday 9 December 2009
The secret of success ....
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Raven Foundation
Tuesday 8 December 2009
Real generosity ...
Real generosity towards the future consists in giving
all to what is present.
Albert Camus
Sunday 6 December 2009
Yesterday ....
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon Johnson
** And if there are no posts in the next couple of days,
it's because I have no internet connection.
Saturday 5 December 2009
To think ....
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we
normally take for granted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friday 4 December 2009
Words...
Words are a heavy thing ... they weigh you down.
If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams
Thursday 3 December 2009
Silence ...
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Whoever wants to reach ...
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow
Tuesday 1 December 2009
The best vision ...
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes
Sunday 29 November 2009
Fishing ...
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may
return to the simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
Saturday 28 November 2009
The limits of my language...
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friday 27 November 2009
Art is born ...
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
Thursday 26 November 2009
A man has free choice ...
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Freedom ...
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa Murkowski
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Use what talents ...
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry van Dyke
Monday 23 November 2009
The future ...
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
Sunday 22 November 2009
By plucking her petals ...
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
Saturday 21 November 2009
Every burden ...
Every burden is a blessing.
Walt Kelly
The Raven Foundation
Friday 20 November 2009
Art ...
Art is making something out of nothing and then selling it.
Frank Zappa
Thursday 19 November 2009
Rarely do great beauty ...
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Tomorrow.....
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Winter is on my head ...
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Victor Hugo
Monday 16 November 2009
Views ...
Views from various resting places give us time to pause, look and see.
Rosemary Verey
Sunday 15 November 2009
There is more to life ...
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi
Friday 13 November 2009
Perfumes ...
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine
Thursday 12 November 2009
Light tomorrow ...
Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Browning
Wednesday 11 November 2009
You are never too old...
You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
Tuesday 10 November 2009
The power ...
The power that makes grass grow, fruit open, and guides
the bird in flight, is in us all.
Anzia Yezierska
Monday 9 November 2009
The flower that follows the sun ...
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
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