“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!” ~Amanda Bradley
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” ~Stella Adler
“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them …
“Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.” ~Gabriela Mistral
“A horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.” ~James Rarey
Strathfield Town Council Hall6 December 2012 “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.” ~Erich Segal
Special Gift19 December 2012 “Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.” ~Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” ~Neil Armstrong (step and leap)
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.” ~E. H. Gombrich
“Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. ” ~W. Kelly Griffith
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” ~Harold Wilson
“Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.” ~Charles Mayes
“Sometimes creativity is a compulsion not an ambition.” ~Ed Norton
“Listen to the sound of your soul. The truth of your destiny lives in your heart.” ~Adele Basheer
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” ~George Linnaeus Banks on Goodness
“I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.” ~Nora Ephron …
“The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.” ~John Lyly
“The way we pay attention to the world can make a huge difference in the way we experience it.” ~Gabrielle Leblanc
“Even people who aren’t sick may not have optimal wellness.” ~Brian Carter
“All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.” ~George Colman
“Things don’t just come your way and happen, you make them happen.” ~Dr. Toni Bark, MD
“Knowing your body gives you the power to change it, maintain it, decorate it, and strengthen it.” ~Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz
“Being organized isn’t about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person; it’s about living the way you want to …
“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and …
“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.” ~Leon Trotsky on Struggle “Old age is the …
“If we looked at eating as an activity to relish rather than as an invitation to gluttony, we’d all be not only healthier but happier.” …
“You’re never too old to grow up.” ~Shirley Conran on Maturity
“It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.” ~Irwin Edman
“The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world …
“When we enter a state of mindful attention, the present moment, the now, eases open. And when it does, life pours in.” ~Anne Glusker
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.” ~Frederic Chopin on Apathy
“Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty.” ~Thomas Paine “For as …
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ~Walter Winchell “Gossip is the art of saying nothing …
“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.” ~G. C. Lichtenberg
“Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.” ~Rabbi Akiva
“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. …
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and …
“(For Pythagoras), Mathematics purified the soul along with music, and the two were interconnected.” ~Terry Breverton “Friendship, loyalty and love were nothing more than elaborate …
Paragon HotelCircular Quay26 November 2012 “The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.” ~Thomas Traherne “You never enjoy the world …
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen …