"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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11/15/24

DAME MAGGIE SMITH - Mind

"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." ~Dame Maggie Smith 

11/13/24

William Ames - Word

"The receiving of the Word consists in two parts: attention of the mind and intention of the will."  ~William Ames

11/8/24

Melania Trump Quotes

"I have come to understand that genuine happiness is not found in material possessions, but rather in the depths of self-awareness and self-acceptance." ~Melania Trump 

"Life's circumstances shape you in many ways, often entirely beyond your control — your birth, parental influences and the world in which you grow up." ~Melania Trump, MELANIA (Memoir), Best Seller, Fox News/Maureen Mackey

"The value of self-care remains a guiding principle in my life." ~Melania Trump 

"To be grounded in one's own identity and values. I embrace my individuality and confidently walk my own path." ~Melania Trump 

11/7/24

Ellen G. White - Pathway to health

"A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health." ~Ellen G. White 

11/6/24

Charlotte Fiske Bates - Autumn


“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” ~Charlotte Fiske Bates

11/2/24

WERNER HEISENBERG - Natural Sciences

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you." ~Werner Heisenberg, Physicist, Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics

10/26/24

JOHAN THORBECKE Quotes

A Dutchman, Statesman

 
"There is more to do in the world than before"

"Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback” – this saying, attributed to Johan Thorbecke, the Dutch politician who played a role in establishing our country's first constitution in 1848, encapsulates the essence and fragility of trust.


"When wealth increases on one side, poverty spreads on the other; when the rich become richer, he who has little must become even poorer; what is legislation, which offers citizenship to all under a condition attainable by few, what is that legislation then, save for irony?"' ~Statesman Thorbecke, 1844

W. H. DAVIS - Tree

"Under this tree 🌳, where light and shade
Speckle the grass like a Thrush's breast,
Here in this green and quiet place, 
I give myself to peace and rest."
~W. H. Davis

Photo: Lake Canobolas
Orange NSW
4 July 2024


10/19/24

Helen Baxendale - Beauty in autumn and winter

"I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that." ~Helen Baxendale 

10/18/24

EDUARDO GALEANO - Container culture

"We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical more than the intellect.
We live in the container culture, which despises the contents." ~Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist.
1940 - 2015

10/16/24

Robbie George - Spirit and spul

“Keep your spirit wild and the tonic of wildness will envelope your soul.” ~Robbie George

10/14/24

JEREMIAH CHAVEZ EUFEMIO - STAMP COLLECTION

"Despite the advent of technology, stamp collection is not dead." ~Jeremiah Eufemio of the Philippine Stamp Collectors Society (PSCS), Philippine Star 

10/13/24

Mark Black:

"Sometimes the most productive thing can do is relax." ~Mark Black 

JULIE NEWMAR - GARDEN

"A garden is a reflection of you, it's your presence in the world." ~Julie Newmar

10/12/24

Brandon Sanderson - Life

“Life breaks us. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.” ~Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

10/8/24

Jean-Michel Basquiat - Decorate

"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” ~Jean-Michel Basquiat

9/25/24

ROBERT KOCH - Gold of wanderings

"If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside." ~Robert Koch

9/2/24

Emily Thorne - Retribution

"In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare." ~  Emily Thorne

8/30/24

Harriet Martineau - Truth


PHOTO credit to the owner

"It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true." ~Harriet Martineau 

8/28/24

Charles Fergus - Bears

“Bears project a mighty physical presence and a capacity for action. They are smart—something that often becomes apparent the moment you come face-to-face with one.” ~Charles Fergus

8/27/24

Mick Ratnapanyo - Equation of existence

"Children's so called "soul age" break equations of existence.. especially when they're older, smarter and wiser than their parents." ~Mick Ratnapanyo

Anne Rice - Intense obsession

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." 
~Anne Rice

8/25/24

Jocellyn Duterte - Happiness and peace

"To love that endures no matter how long it takes, for it is only in forgiving that we heal and find happiness and peace." ~Jocellyn Duterte 7/13/22

8/14/24

Sarah Prout - Energy

"We have the incredible ability to guide our energy to attract things, people, places,  and experiences into our lives." ~Sarah Prout 

IRANIAN PROVERB

"A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by the hair." ~Iranian Proverb