So he turns and says to me “You need to look in the mirror, you need to love yourself, and you need to earn the right to be loved by respecting those close to you ( Read more... )

How do you describe the undescribable? How do you put into words something so beautiful it makes your heart skip a beat. Thats the feeling I was left with when I saw my baby perform on stage last night. Imagine being extremely proud, utterly amazed and totally turned on all at the same time and then you may start getting just a tiny bit close to ( Read more... )

In my limited wisdom I believe there are two types of lives you can lead. You can either be someone who leads a life of happiness, or someone who leads a life of meaning. To lead a life of happiness you must live entirely in the present, with no worry of what came before, or what lies ahead. To live a life of meaning is to constantly fret about ( Read more... )

Funniest Joke in the World: (Apparently voted for in 2002 on Yahoo ( Read more... )

Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States, and therefore seen as the first First Lady of the United States, once said, “I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our ( Read more... )

Marcel Proust was a clever French geezer who lived in the 19th century. He once said

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”

3 hours to go until we are picked up to go to the airport. 3 hours until the boys begin their journey to a lovely little island in the Mediterranean. 3 hours until the beginning of a new adventure, and hopefully a new start for me. Regardless of whether I stay on the Greek Island for a week, or an additional 4 or 5 weeks, this weekend has been an ( Read more... )

…Once upon a time, a writer named Aldous E.Huxley said “is this all?” Huxley had the misfortune of dying on the same day as JFK, and the more famous writer C.S Lewis. As a consequence his death was somewhat overshadowed. Yet for me his spiritually based philosophy is fascinating and particularly in the later years of his life, when his works were ( Read more... )

Who is more dangerous?

The man who has nothing to lose

or

The man who has everything to lose…?

Sometimes you just don’t know where to turn. Sometimes you just don’t know who to talk to. My life is so full, yet so empty right now. Sometimes I just want to escape to a place far away where there is no worries and no problems. Reality is all a bit too much to take… sometimes ( Read more... )