Quotes

This is a collection of extracts from my diary and other scribblings over the years.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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Abundance - It is up to us to embrace abundance consciousness, and the rest will flow naturally. ~ 2000

Adventure - There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers. ~ 1988

Africa - Africa is the continent of surprise - it constantly surprises me, it is waiting to surprise you, and soon, it will surprise the whole world. ~ 2008

Age - As much as age is an inescapable reality, it is also an ethereal illusion. ~ 2005

Answers - Searching for answers in life presumes that we even know the questions. ~ 1992

Attitude - Sometimes we focus too much on the litter in the pond, and not enough on the beautiful reflection of the trees in the water. ~ 1997

Attitude - Our attitude is the only thing over which we can have complete control ~ 2005

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Beginnings - Every new beginning is just a first step away. ~ 2005

Beliefs - My creed is simple: I believe in the potential of everything and everyone, for good and evil. ~ 1988

Believing - Suspending disbelief is not nearly as powerful as believing. ~ 2005

Business - Business exists to serve society, not the other way around. ~ 1990

Business - Who says that business institutions can't be a light in the darkness of society's consciousness? ~ 1993

Business - Business's true quest is a noble one - to serve the needs and aspirations of humanity and become a playground for creativity in the search for meaning. ~ 1993

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Certainty - Life comes with no guarantees; nor does love. ~ 2007

Change - Change is a process, not an event. ~ 1991

Choice - Every person chooses and walks their own path. Only they can choose it and only they can walk it. And to move forward in life, they must do both. ~ 1988

Creation - All creation is born of imagination and nurtured by expression. ~ 1989

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Dancing - Dancing is allowing ourselves to be moved by music. ~ 2005

Daring - Dare to be: to be different, to be loving, to be successful, to be true to yourself. ~ 1991

Destiny - Look out for stepping stones on the river of your destiny. ~ 1999

Diana (Princess) - Her flame is not extinguished; neither the torches she lit in so many hearts, nor the light she brought to so many lives. ~ 1997

Dignity - Dignity is the saving grace of humanity. ~ 2005

Dignity - How is it that those with so little give so much and with such personal dignity? ~ 1995

Doubt - Doubt is the shield we carry through the battlefields of life. ~ 2008

Dreams - The greatest dreams are about being different and making a difference. ~ 1991

Dreams - Dreams are the swirling smoke of our spirit's fire. ~ 2005

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Endurance - Do not nail yourself to a cross each time you fall short of the mark. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again, and again, and again. ~ 1990

Eternity - Eternity is our choice - if we choose to live in the everlasting present, and if have the courage to keep going against all odds. ~ 2008

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Fairytales - I've lived long enough to know that life is no fairytale, but it certainly is a tale and an adventurous one at that. ~ 2008

Fear - Our greatest fear is not being loved. ~ 2007

Flight - Flight is the journey beyond our limitations. ~ 2005

Flowers - When nature laughs, flowers bloom. ~ 2005

Food - Food is a universal language spiced by delicious local dialects. ~ 2005

Forests - Walking through an indigenous forest can only be described as magical and enchanting. ~ 1995

Freedom - You are free: Free to think what you like, free to do what you want, free to be yourself, free to fall in love, free to live. ~ 1987

Freedom - We have no home, other than all creation. We have no ties, other than to every living thing. ~ 1991

Freedom - We must sanction our own freedom to love, to enjoy, to adventure, to play, to tread and skip and fly lightly. ~ 1992

Friendship - Friendship is the bond between hearts and the bridge between souls. ~ 2005

Frontiers - If we are to advance as a civilization - and not destroy ourselves in the process - we need to radically shift our energies from external conquests to internal frontiers. ~ 2001

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Geese - Geese are a reminder to nurture our relationships, to be be flexible, adaptable to change, to be open to migration, a change of scenery or circumstances. ~ 1997

Generosity - Generosity is sharing that which you can least afford to give. ~ 2005

Genius - The mark of a genius is their unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding, for a more complete picture of the universe and our place in it. ~ 1993

Goodness - We must never loose our belief in the fundamental goodness of people; the exceptions only serve to prove the rule. ~ 1992

Greed - Who says business can't reach beyond the shadows of selfishness and greed and become a source of light and love in the world? ~ 1993

Growth - The seed in the ground needs to be unhappy with its dark, wet existence. ~ 2000

Guidance - The best guidance that others can give is to remind us that we have the means to further whichever ends we choose. ~ 1989

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Happiness - Life is our instructor, and her first lesson is to be happy. ~ 1988

Healing - Time - and focusing on the good things in our lives - helps us to heal and keep moving, however slowly, towards wholeness again. ~ 2007

Heart - To live life more from the heart simply means to make those heart-led connections - to places, people, animals, our passion, our principles and our purpose. ~ 2000

Holism - Is it not time to forsake security and credibility in the world's eyes in order to advance the new vision of holism and consciousness? ~ 1996

Home - Home is wherever we feel we most belong. ~ 2005

Hope - Many have lost their belief in the fundamental goodness and promise of humanity. It is vital that our sense of hope is rekindled, nurtured and sustained. ~ 1992

Humour - Any attempt to fathom the mystery of humour is laughable. ~ 1992

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Insight - An epiphany is seeing the same world again, but differently this time. ~ 2005

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Judgement - We are never in a position to judge the path another person chooses, for each much choose their own path and live with the consequences. ~ 1989

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Landscape - Shrinking against the landscape, we swell inside with pleasure. ~ 1998

Laughter - May your laughter echo through the passages of time. ~ 1998

Leaders - The hope for our future lies with the emergence of a new brand of principled leaders who lead from the heart. ~ 1992

Leadership - Leadership is the ability to inspire individuals to act for the common good. ~ 2005

Learning - If we can be mindful of the lessons that each day has offered us, our learning will be swift and sure. ~ 1991

Letters - Writing letters seems like a long lost art - a buried treasure people have simply forgotten about, in their haste to fire off shallow, one-line emails. ~ 2000

Letting go - We only let go of something or someone when we realise we have nothing much to gain by holding on. ~ 2007

Living - The real key to the wonders, the mysteries and the potential of life is to be found in the living thereof. ~ 1991

Loneliness - We walk in this world alone, yet we are never alone. ~ 1991

Love - Love is a journey in which we can never know the destination, only that we want to walk into the unknown with another by our side. ~ 2007

Love - Love is the ultimate human quest. ~ 2005

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Meaning - We should never be embarrassed to admit that we are puzzled (clueless even) about the meaning of life. ~ 1992

Memories - Memories of the past are teachers of the present and prophets of the future. ~ 2005

Mind - Mapping the unseen world and learning to navigate the unchartered waters of the mind is the great challenge of our time. ~ 2001

Miracles - We have to look for miracles in the mundane. ~ 1997

Miracles - To a line, a square is a miracle, and to a square, a cube is an impossible dream. ~ 2008

Moon - The moon is reflective, feminine, nocturnal, mysterious, bewitching and .. most importantly .. made of cheese! ~ 2007

Music - Any music can be played, but the best music plays us. ~ 2005

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Names - Names tell a story. They are a symbol of our past heritage and, if we are lucky, a touchstone for our future aspirations. ~ 2005

Nature - Nature needs no improvement, only appreciation and respect. ~ 1991

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Opportunity - We must learn to have faith in life itself. For life will always present us with opportunities to begin to make our wishes come true. ~ 1989

Organisations - Organisations form part of the chain of living organisms. Each has their own life cycle, personality, influence and capacity to evolve. ~ 1992

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Partnership - Partnership is the journey towards being better together than apart. ~ 2005

Paths - We all have our paths to walk, our crosses to bear and, ultimately, our crucifixion to endure and resurrection to embrace. ~ 1997

Permission - Always give yourself permission to play, to have adventures, to skip and jump, to enjoy life, to fly and to love. ~ 1992

Perspective - Looking down on the city lights puts life into perspective - there is the greater whole, of which I am but a single molecule ~ 1989

Persuasion - Never try to convince anyone of anything. You can plant a seed, water it and pluck the fruit, but you cannot grow the plant, for that is the work of nature. ~ 1988

Pessimism - The victim of pessimism is hope. And where there is no hope, there is no future worth living for. ~ 1992

Pilgrimage - A pilgrimage is a spiritual journey - the ecstacy and the pain, losing the way and refinding the path, the seasons, the cycle of life, the nourishment from grove streams and the panoramic view from the mountain summit. ~ 1996

Possibilities - We are all on a highly personal journey of infinite possibilities. ~ 1992

Progress - This is progress: Having a goal, no matter how small or simple, and moving towards it, no matter how slowly or indirectly. ~ 1989

Protection - Sometimes, a 'big stick' is less effective protection than a small wand. ~ 1997

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Radicals - Radicals are the roots of all progress. ~ 2005

Reality - Sometimes daily living seems but a distraction, something trivial in the face of greater reality. ~ 1989

Rejuvenation - There is a silent wind trapped within us, longing to blow and cleanse and purify and rejuvenate, if only we would release it. ~ 1987

Responsibility - Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care. ~ 2005

Rings - A ring is a symbol - it's circular shape represents wholeness and eternity, which is the ultimate potential of love. ~ 1992

Rituals - Rituals are labyrinths with meaning at their centre. ~ 2005

Rootedness - Rootedness and involvement are among the most effective ways and authentic means of responding to the world's great challenges. ~ 1996

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Seasons - Seasons are the variable shades of blush we see when we catch nature changing. ~ 2005

Self-love - I need to love myself as I am, not as I was or wish to be. ~ 1990

Silence - All sound begins and ends in silence. ~ 2005

Space - The building blocks of life, the universe, and everything, are the spaces in between. ~ 2005

Sport - Sport is a better peacemaker than politics or religion. ~ 2005

Stories - We all have a story to tell - of our journey through this life, of the world through our yes, of the "I am" that we are - and the true telling is in the living. ~ 1992

Strength - Sometimes strength is in recognising weakness, and courage is in accepting a helping hand. ~ 2007

Success - Success can always be traced back to one or two enthusiastic and committed individuals. ~ 2005

Success - Dream on! For success was never born from anything less than dreams. ~ 1993

Surprises - Life is full! Full of surprises!

Synchronicity - Synchronicity is a sign that the universe is working with us, or perhaps more accurately, that we are working in harmony with the universe. ~ 2007

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Theatre - Theatre is where we go to let others expose who we are. ~ 2005

Third Way - The Third Way is that elusive road joining the divergent paths of growth and development, ownership and sharing, competition and co-operation, confrontation and consensus, material and spiritual. ~ 1994

Time - Calendar time is an illusion that masks the continuity and interconnectedness of all life and time - past, present and future. ~ 1997

Time - Time is an intimate stranger - it rules our lives, but remains an unfathomable enigma. ~ 2001

Time - Time is our greatest gift, and using it well, our greatest offering in return. ~ 2005

Touch - Only when touched do we truly come to our senses. ~ 2005

Transcendence - Life is all about transcending our limitations - seeking out boundaries of our potential, and then stepping beyond them. ~ 1992

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Understand - When we understand why and how people and things are they way they are, hatred and prejudice can no longer exist. ~ 2005

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War - There is no such thing as a war without unexpected and unintended consequences. ~ 2008

Wildness - We were all born to be wild and tricked into being tame. ~ 2005

Words - Words, once spoken, have a life of their own. ~ 2004

World - We do - on the whole - live in a kinder, gentler world today, albeit less enduring.

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