Henri Juntilla - what matters

"One day, your heart will stop beating, and none of your fears will matter. What will matter is how you lived." ~Henri Juntilla

Destin Sparks - photography

"Photography is the story I fail to put into words." ~Destin Sparks

Quotes on DIVERSITY

"Amidst our diversity, we stand united in peace and security." ~Farah Ali Ghodsinia, UP Law Student

"Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness." ~Ola Joseph

"I think it's really important to have a cabinet that reflects the diversity of the Australian community and that means having men and women, it means having older and younger people and people who have had all sorts of life experiences." ~Tanya Plibersek, Australian Federal Health Minister (Labor Gov't Recent Cabinet Reshuffle, 12 December 2011)

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." ~John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"In this climate of terror, it is important for all of us who are representatives of our country and its diversity to speak and remain united against a horror that has no colour, no religion." ~Lassana Diarra, France midfielder, Guardian Australia (16 Nov 2015)

"Peace is a process of responding to diversity and conflict with tolerance, imagination, and flexibility; war is a product of our intent to stamp out diversity and conflict when we give up on the process of peace." ~George E. Lyon

"We want intellectual diversity. Not your feelings." ~President Rodrigo Duterte

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Burt Lancaster - circus

"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes." ~Burt Lancaster

Robert Mugabe Quotes

“How can these countries who have stolen land from the Red Indians, the Aborigines, the Eskimos dare to tell us what to do with our land?" ~Robert Mugabe

"I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States." ~Robert Mugabe

"If you are ugly, you are ugly. Stop talking about inner beauty because men don’t walk around with X-ray machines to see inner beauty." ~ROBERT MUGABE (1924-2019), Zimbabwe President

"No Girl will choose six pack over six cars… so stop going to the gym and go to work." ~Robert Mugabe

‪"Racism will never end as long as white cars are stil using black tyres. Racism will never end if people still use black to symbolise bad luck and white for peace. Racism will never end if people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals. Racism will never end as long as those who don't pay their bills are blacklisted not white listed. Even when playing Pool, You haven't won until you've sunk the black ball, and the white ball must remain on the table. But I don't care, as long as I'm still using white toilet paper to wipe my black ass I'm happy." ~Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe President‬

"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse." ~Robert Mugabe

"Stop this habit of asking people to get married because their agemates are married. Even you, some of your agemates have died but nobody has asked you to die." ~Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe

"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating." ~Robert Mugabe

"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough." ~Robert Mugabe

"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done." ~Robert Mugabe

"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races." ~Robert Mugabe

"Zimbabwe will never be a colony again." ~Robert Mugabe

BIO

Died in Singapore 6 September 2019

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Lois Lowry Quotes

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ~Lois Lowry, The Giver. (from Haizer Adrias Libcat)

"They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.” ~Lois Lowry, The Giver

"We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” ~Lois Lowry, The Giver

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Thought for Today: YOU DESERVE BETTER

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"Never settle. Understand you deserve better." ~Barb Schmidt

"Sometimes the only closure that you need is understanding that you deserve better." ~Trent Shelton

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Charlotte Gillman - home servant

"The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true motherduty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now." ~Charlotte Gillman

Dorothy Nevill - art of conversation

'The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." ~Dorothy Nevill

Baroness Edith Summerskill - truth

"Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths." ~Baroness Edith Summerskill

Grace Hansen - life

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." ~Grace Hansen

Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes

'Women's virtue is man's greatest invention." ~Cornelia Otis Skinner

"Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed." ~Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Costa Georgiadis

"Gardening fuels the senses: talk with hands, observe with ears, and listen with your eyes." ~Costa Georgiadis (gleaned from Lily's BUJO)

Morgan Harper Nichols Quotes

"I do not know what lies ahead but I will find joy anyway." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

"I hope today is the kind of day, you see the light in everything." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

"May you never overlook how powerful it can be to slow down  for a moment and take a little time to breathe." ~Morgan Harper Nichols 

"no matter the darkness around her, light ran wild within her, and that was the way she came alive, and it showed up in everything." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

"Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else's survival guide." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

"When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

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HIPPOCRATES Quotes

"A wise man ought to realise that health is his most valuable possession." ~Hippocrates

"All diseases begins in the gut." ~Hippocrates (REAL FOOD. WE ARE WHAT WE EAT. THE HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS)

"Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick." ~Hippocrates

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her: we just have to help it in its work." ~Hippocrates 

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." ~Hippocrates

“Health is the greatest of human blessings”  ~Hippocrates 

"Let medicine be thy food and food thy medicine." ~Hippocrates

"Make a habit of two things  - to help, or at least,  to do no harm. " ~Hippocrates 

"The art is long, life is short." ~Hippocrates

"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it." ~Hippocrates

"The natural healing force in each one of us is the greatest force in getting well." ~Hippocrates

“The soul is the same in all living creatures although the body of each is different." ~Hippocrates

"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your  medicine." ~Hippocrates 

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm." ~Hippocrates

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity." ~Hippocrates

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Thierry Mugler Quotes

"A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is." ~Thierry Mugler

"Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself." ~Thierry Mugler

"I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life." ~Thierry Mugler

"Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style." ~Thierry Mugler

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Farah Ali Ghodsinia - diversity

"Amidst our diversity, we stand united in peace and security." ~Farah Ali Ghodsinia, UP Law Student

N.B. - United Nations Head Quarters New York City, May 5, 2018 New York, NY, United States
(EDD Young Leaders for Development NATIONAL YOUTH COMMISSION UN Youth Envoy Women Deliver Philippine Commission on Women Task Force Bangon Marawi United Nations UN Women UN SDSN Youth - Philippines Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Jesus Jess Dureza Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative United Nations Youth)

‪Devino del Panoma‬ - travellers

"All is well in the ever changing landscape of entropy in a race for sustainability prolonging the inevitable. We lay waste in our ignorance of human endeavour greatly controlled by power, pride and prestige. Indulge on negative diversity. We are meant to be star travellers until 'race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us'. We play around in our tiny space called earth instead in the vastness of universe. Let us lay waste on our ignorance. As the famous saying; 'Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and im not sure about the former..'" ~‪Devino del Panoma‬ on Caloy Bueno's The Stuff of Dreams

Ibn Taymiyyah - shadow

"Dont depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness." ~Ibn Taymiyyah

Claude McKay - Idealism

“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.” ~Claude McKay

CLAUDE MONET Quotes

"All I did was to look at what the universe 

showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it." ~Claude Monet 

Hydrangea

"I must have flowers, always, always." ~Claude Monet

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~Claude Monet 

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” ~Claude Monet

"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly." ~Claude Monet

 “Light is the most important person in the picture.”  ~Claude Monet

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” ~Claude Monet 

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." ~Claude Monet

“Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.” ~Claude Monet

“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”  ~Claude Monet

"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration."  ~Claude Monet

SIMMOS BEACH

Macquarie Fields NSW

January 21, 2023

“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.” ~Claude Monet

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Shinrin-yoku

"Forest Bathing is not exercise, or hiking, or jogging. It is simply being in nature, connecting with it through our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Shinrin-yoku is like a bridge. By opening our senses, it bridges the gap between us and the natural world." ~TIme dot com