Thought For The Week – 2020

I was asked what I will be doing in a year. I couldn’t answer because I don’t have 2020 vision!
A post on facebook

As humans we are very good at giving – see how people respond when others are faced with disaster – but we’re generally pretty poor at receiving. We grow up being taught that there are ‘givers & takers’ and being a ‘taker’ is seen as a  derogatory term.

There is another type though; a ‘receiver’. Being a ‘receiver’ is someone who accepts help and support from others with grace and gratitude.

Without ‘receivers’ there can be no ‘givers’.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they’ll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong

Women marry men hoping they will change, and men marry women hoping they will not. And each is inevitably disappointed.
Mort Sahl (not Albert Einstein as often quoted)

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin

Sometimes. in order to succeed. you have to make sure there is no other option. You have to:
Burn your bridges; cross the Rubicon; eliminate Plan B;
and move forward.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas

A man on a date wonders if he’ll get lucky. The woman already knows.
Monica Piper

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns

Things that cost nothing are the most important – dignity, self-respect, speech, good posture, good manners, kindness, a smile, talking eye to eye and the greatest of all, love!
June Dally-Watkins

Behold how good and how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together as one.
Psalm 133

Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Rahm Emanuel

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. You just have to care.
Karen Salmansohn

In the early twenty-first century, the average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald’s than from drought, Ebola (ed: COVID-19) or an al-Qaeda attack.
Yuval Noah Harari

In the end, we remember experience rather than information
Gilad Shavit

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.
Attributed to Albert Einstein by Frederick S. Perls in his book “In and Out the Garbage Pail”

Never look down on anyone unless your arms are outstretched to lift them up.
Clarice Shoebridge-Harris

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but by intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
Howard J Ryan

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
John Joseph Powell

Something good always comes out of a bad situation and something bad will come out of a good situation i.e. nothing is completely good or bad.
Miriam Harrould

The most important qualification for being a leader is not wanting to be a leader.
Plato

The world’s shortest story:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Ernest Hemingway