“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” - Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai I was invited by the University of Melb...

“Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.” - B. C. Forbes Another hard week is over and another evening of exhaustion. I am ce...

“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” - Percy Bysshe Shelley The anemone , Anemone coronaria, is the flower assigned ...

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” - Lao Tzu Magpie Tales m...

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wel...

“Therein lies the defect of revenge: It’s all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is th...

“I don’t paint pretty pictures. I love beautiful places but I am not interested in replicating what I see. The work is usually derived...

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere” - François de la Rochefoucauld A relax...

“Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I...

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” - Martin Luther Tu B’Shevat is a min...

“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” - T. E. Kalem Magpie Tales has presented to us this week with an image of a gr...

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” -...

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tal...

“And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watc...

“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.” - Voltaire Thank goodness it’s Friday! It’s been another very tiring wee...