“No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each ...

“It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.” - Aristotle Today is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunci...

“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.” - Robert Frost I am in Adelaide f...

“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not...

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” - Thomas Fuller Water: Essential for life, indispensable nutrient, great solvent...

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” - Oscar Wilde At the weekend we saw the 200...

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty y...

“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.” – Amy Lowell The biggest full moon in 19 years is with us toni...

“Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolate.” - Fernando Pessoa It has been a short but extremely busy week at work. There have...

“Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow” - Ralph Waldo Emerson The word of the day today is sieve...

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what...

“An open enemy is better than a false friend” -  Greek proverb On this day, the ides of March, in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated. A...

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” - Oscar Wilde It was a public holid...

“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Japan continues to dominat...

“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine II More distressing news keeps filtering in from Japan. More...

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” - Kenji Miyazawa News of the massive earthquake and tsunamis in Japan awaited...

“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy;
 It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
 the meat it feeds on.” - William Shakespeare Pennyroyal,...

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” - Elizabeth Lawrence A cool, grey, rainy day today. The weather bureau has re...

“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” - Faith Whittlesey It is International Women’...

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery We watched Eric Leighton’s and Ralph Zond...