"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
Oscar Wilde
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"May you live all the days of your life."
Jonathan Swift
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."
John Wooden
We are all visitors
to this time,
this place.
We are just passing through.
Our purpose here is to observe,
to learn, to grow
to love....
and then,
we return home.
Aboriginal proverb
" Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. "
Honore de Balzac
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
L P Hartley
“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting our high technology from weaponry to livingry.”
Buckminster Fuller
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience. Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are & what we want.”
Ursula K Le Guin
“The only thing you can do about awful people is not be one of them.”
Ian McKellen
“My philosophy is: Its none of my business what people say of me & think of me. I am what I am & I do what I do. I expect nothing & accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”
Anthony Hopkins
“Now that we have learned to fly in the air like birds, & dive in the sea like fish, only one thing remains...to learn to live on the Earth like humans.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It doesn't matter how old you are or where you come from. Manners, kindness, respect & compassion will always be the signs of a good human being.”
James Hilton
“The problem is people are being hated when they are real, & are being loved when they are fake.”
Bob Marley
“We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat & sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - & then we retire.
And what do they give us? A bloody clock.”
Dave Allen
“If you took all your DNA, straightened it out, & put it end to end,it would stretch to Jupiter & back 10 times over.
You are neither small nor insignificant.
You're just very well folded.”
Anon
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're misinformed.”
Mark Twain
“Life's biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon & wise too late.”
Anon
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
Paul Farme
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucious
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars." - John J. Pershing
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavour."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Tony Robbins
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't worry when you are not recognised, but strive to be worthy of recognition."
Abraham Lincoln
"May you live all the days of your life."
Jonathan Swift
“When art critics get together, they talk about form & structure & meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
Pablo Picasso
“We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs – we have no place to go.” ~ Golda Meir, 1969
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read & write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn & relearn.”
Alvin Toffler
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.”
Banksy
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson