A.A.Milne

"If you can read this, thank a teacher."

Anonymous Teacher

"Thank you for the world so sweet,
Thank you for the food we eat,
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you God, for everything."

A child's blessing

“Dwell with thankfulness on the blessings and happiness that life has brought you.”


Advices and Queries, Quaker Society of Friends




"Thank you, goodbye and carry on."


Tim Field 2006

"The best way of avoiding MRSA is undoubtedly not to go into hospital at all or,
if one must go, to stay as short a time as possible."

Baroness Pitkeathley




"I suddenly thought: Well, if I am going to die tomorrow, I've got to design a garden now."

Tom Hart Dyke




"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity,
and is the torch which illuminates the world."


Louis Pasteur





"I have no doubt that diet and other factors such as this (probiotics; friendly bacteria; Lactobacillus plantarum)
can have an impact on the behaviour of children with autism..."

Gordon R Ashton

District Judge,
Deputy Master of the Court of Protection,
Visiting Professor in Law at Northumbria University






"Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves.
Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of
empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, a gentle stirring of life
and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a man.
I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of
solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and
the crudest implications of history. As a result, there shines forth
fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the
foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all."

Albert Camus
"The Artist and His Time"


"It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."


Robert F Kennedy
South Africa 1966
and quoted at Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC




"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps,
and preside over the White House as the president's spouse...I wish him well!"

Barbara Bush
Former US First Lady

"One thing I feel most passionately about: love of invention will never die."

Karl Benz

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older.
Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman.
Stuff you pay good money for in later life."

Elmo Phillips

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces
and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

Sir James M. Barrie





"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain




"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves - who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God,
Your playing small doesn't serve the world,
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
And as we are liberated from fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson 1992 quoted by Nelson Mandela 1994 click for detail

I Chronicles 4:10

BEAUTY TIPS

For attractive lips,
Speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,
Seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure,
Share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,
let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,
Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored,
renewed,
revived,
reclaimed,
and redeemed;
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, If you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older,
you will discover that you have two hands,
one for helping yourself,
the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

"Hugging is healthy:
It helps the body's immune system,
It cures depression,
It reduces stress,
It induces sleep,
It's invigorating,
It has no unpleasant side effects,
And hugging is nothing less than a miracle drug!
Hugging is all natural: It is organic, naturally sweet, and 100% wholesome.
It contains no preservatives, and no artificial junk.
Hugging is practically perfect:
There are no moving parts,
No batteries to wear out,
No periodic checkups,
No insurance requirements,
And no monthly payments.
It has low-energy consumption and high-energy yield.
It is inflation-proof, non-fattening, theft-proof,
Nontaxable, nonpolluting, and of course, FULLY RETURNABLE!!"

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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos.
Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd."

I Ching




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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien



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Melissa achieves her ambition to visit New York after heart operations -1998.

"Infinity and beyond!"

Buzz Lightyear



"I am only one, but I am still one."

Helen Keller





"I like a man who grins when he fights."

Winston Churchill


"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde


"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."

C.S.Lewis


"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway."

Eleanor Roosevelt



"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Mark Twain


"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

Albert Einstein


"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

A.N.Other

"Sure, Ah'm somethin' special. God made me. An' he don' make no rubbish."

A.N.Other (Snr.)


"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Mahatma Gandhi


"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."

Walt Disney


"We cannot achieve great things on this earth, we can only do small things with great love."

Mother Teresa


"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

Vista M. Kelly

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

Marie Osmond

"George - don't do that."

Joyce Grenfell



"All you need is love."

John Lennon



"Lovely day."

Bill Withers

Can you inspire someone?

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