"Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves." Princess Diana
Monthly Archives: March 2016
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
Katharine Hepburn
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
When I was at school, I was taught about the ancient river civilisations of the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates. I remember being captivated by the story of Howard Carter who discovered the Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamen. As a young boy, I could not imagine a more breath taking experience than that of peering into this ancient chamber with the light of a flickering candle revealing the glistering gold of the young pharaoh's buried wealth. I became mesmerised by the myths of ancient Egypt and, for a time, believed I wanted to be
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
Rumi
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
John Irving
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
Rumi
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank
"Earth laughs in flowers." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
Barbra Streisand