Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.’ — Winston Churchill #thoughtfortoday #time #slow #build #destroy #thoughtless #legkomyslennyy #bezdumnyy A collision of thoughts today, as I stumbled on this photograph, buried in a sleepy part…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.’ — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn #thoughtfortoday #war #excuse #tyranny #repression Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn died in the midst of the global financial crash of 2008, if he had lived to the present day I am sure he would have had plenty to…

📅 Thought for today: ‘There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.’ — Howard Zinn #thoughtfortoday #shame Shame as a topic has come up a few times with clients so far this year (can we really already be 1/6th of the way into 2022?) As a practising therapist, shame…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.’   — Sir Anthony Hopkins   #thoughtfortoday #Wales #StDavidsDay #Welsh #music #poetry #talyllyn #land #MenOfHarlech   Today is St. David’s Day, the Feast of St.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.’ — George Takei #thoughtfortoday #brandnewday #morning #hobby #focus #sulu #gratitude #gifts After a few…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.’   — Marjane Satrapi   #thoughtfortoday #putin…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.’ — Caspar Weinberger #thoughtfortoday #sanctions #ineffective #negotiation #foolish #trust #aggression #fear Today I am wondering…

📅 Thought for today: ‘With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.’ — Wayne Dyer #thoughtfortoday #growth #experience #selfhelp #gift #choice Wayne…

📅 Thought for today: ‘You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.’ — Jeannette Rankin #thoughtfortoday #war #winning #earthquake #russia #ukraine I woke this morning to news of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The more I read about this, the less I understand. In many ways, the less I want…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.’ — Rumi #thoughtfortoday #shouting #angry #manager #trainthem Have you ever worked with or for someone who resorted to shouting when they got frustrated, irritated or thwarted at work? Have you ever been that person? This description of workplace…