Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
– Aristotle
Author: SharonKS
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
– Lord Byron
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
– Aristotle
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
– Lord Byron
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
– Aristotle
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly – by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
– Aristotle
Life always takes us by surprise doesn’t it? Just when you think you have it all managed or just when you’re about to give up, things change.
Change… the only other certainty about life besides death. The way the future is perceived is always changing too. The future looks to be like this now and then years down the road, when I look at the future beyond, it’s different than what my younger self would have envisioned.
Looking back to when I started this blog and where I am now, my perspective on so many things have changed. I have slowed down, not because I’m old or unable, but because I have finally understood how to stop and smell the roses. It’s not just about taking a sniff and then moving on, as my younger self thought.
Over the years, I have seen that the concept of coincidence is really just a superstition of sorts. Everything that is experienced in life teaches you something. Whether you learn the lesson right then, or it’s a lesson that falls into place down the road – it’s a lesson whether you know it or not.
Hindsight brings much value to decisions yet to be made. But even the knowledge that hindsight uncovers a week after an event, a year after, or a decade after varies… such are the beautiful intricacies of life, don’t you think?
~s.k.s.s.
Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
– Maya Angelou
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
– Winston Churchill
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
– Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
– Rumi
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Down down down to the underground! Left right up down round and round. She says I’m crazy, I say she is weird. The weather the weather is hazy. Now to the underground we are going deeper and deeper.
Down down down to the underground! Left right up down round and round. She says I’m crazy, I say she is weird. The weather the weather is hazy. Now to the underground we are going deeper and deeper.
She says I’m weird I say she’s funny there goes a big fat bunny! No no no no no. Now to the underground.
– Song by Anisha Schuelke, aged 9 (March 2021)
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
– Lewis Carroll
I opened the door. I saw a paper that said I don’t care, then we all clapped our hands in the air like now now now. You said that I was crazy you said that I was mad! No you were the only one no-oh. You said that I was mad that I was mad!
I opened the door. I saw a paper that said I don’t care, then we all clapped our hands in the air like now now now. You said that I was crazy you said that I was mad! No you were the only one no-oh. You said that I was mad that I was mad!
– Song by Anisha Schuelke, aged 9 (March 2021)
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rainbow of Madness 