Today my brain has been working hard thinking about the new year (and there I wondered why my boss gave me a mug with the word "philospher" on it!!). This year I've decided to take a leaf out of Tylluapenry's book and use a motto rather come up with New Years resolutions. As I think I've mentioned before, like millions of others, I never stick to resolutions so therefore haven't made any for a number of years. Resolutions tend to be negatives, about what we need to stop doing. Funny how as soon as we use the word "don't" we end up "doing".
So, today my mind has been working hard thinking of my motto plus a load of other positive statements. In so doing, I came across some sayings I had written down some months back and thought I'd share some of them:
"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise" - Horace
"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is" - John Lancaster Spalding (author)
"Not all who wander are lost" - JRR Tolkien (I really like this one)
"Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are" - Malcolm Forbes (publisher)
"Friendship is a sheltering tree" - Samuel Taylor Coldridge
"We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen" - Paul Coelho
2007-12-29 @ 16:46