Monthly Archives: May 2012

Quotes + Thoughts | Mandela on positive thinking

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela [b 1918]

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Quotes + Thoughts | Mandela on self conviction

“We ask ourselves, who am I to be, gorgeous, talented, brilliant, fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be?” ~ Nelson Mandela [b 1918]

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Quotes + Thoughts | Mandela on the power within

“… And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.” ~ Nelson Mandela [b 1918]

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Quotes + Thoughts | Lincoln’s Mother’s Day Wish

“All I am, or hope to be, I owe it to my Angel Mother.” ~ Abraham Lincoln [1809 – 1865], 16th President of the United States

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Quotes + Thoughts | Mandela on fighting our inner demons

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is … Continue reading

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Quotes + Thoughts | Plato on facing adversity

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” ~ Plato

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Quotes + Thoughts | Plato on empathy

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ~ Plato

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Quotes + Thoughts | Plato on the power of love

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato

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Quotes + Thoughts | Dream on… it will take you far [2]

Have you ever written on a banana in biro? Its crazy but it works like a dream. You wish all writing could be this way. It flows. It’s smooth. It’s sensual. You get the urge to write poems; sonnets; odes … Continue reading

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Quotes + Thoughts | Dream on… it will take you far [1]

To anyone who ever had an idea turned down; who went back to the drawing board after being told that it will never work; who could so easily have given up, but kept persevering; who knew that failure was just … Continue reading

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