Progress

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul"

Oscar Wilde

Helpers

"Good friends are like stars..........you don't always see them, but you know they are always there."

More Steps

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

Sun Tzu

Building Strength

" Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakess on dispositions."

Sun Tzu

[photo - double helix pedestrian bridge Singapore]

Start Your Engines [ Legs?]

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

Sun Tzu

"THE" hip day

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.......


Mark Twain

Determination

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Sun Tzu

Memory ...

... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

When you jump ...

You have to believe in yourself.

Sun Tzu

Looking in

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Sun Tzu

Life is mainly froth and bubble

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

Peace and Beauty

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Flight or Fight?

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

Music to my ears ...

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

Moving along

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Thinking about it

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

Fact of the matter

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Morris West

Countdown to Hip (H)op Two

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D Roosevelt