Category: Thought for Today

Thought for today:   ‘There is something both gratifying and humiliating in watching a man who has taken you for a routinely silly woman begin to take you seriously.’   — A S Byatt   #thoughtfortoday #gratifying #humiliating #seriously   This quote came to mind after reading about The Queen’s Gambit, a show on Netflix.…

Thought for today:   ‘You cannot control the behaviour of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.’   — Roy T Bennett   #thoughtfortoday #behaviour #response #control   Sometimes, someone lashes out at you.   Or says something mean, intending to hurt. Exerting power over you.   I’m not talking about…

Thought for today: ‘You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.’ — Lori Deschene #thoughtfortoday #positive #feelings #human Today this resonates with me. I work with people and their feelings,…

Thought for today:   ‘Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.’   — Alexander Pope   #thoughtfortoday #hope #blessed #lifetocome   One of those quotes that is often cut short.   The…

Thought for today: ‘A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.’ — James E. Faust #thoughtfortoday #grateful #humility #foundation Today I am grateful for many things. As I head into…

Thought for today: ‘When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.’ — African Proverb #thoughtfortoday #death #dying #loss #RabbiSacks Yesterday (as you may recall) I was on a training session on attitudes to death and dying. Esther Perel hosted a panel of experts for 1,300 psychotherapists, coaches, and counselors. It is part…

Thought for today: ‘Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.’ — Massimo Marino #thoughtfortoday #taboo #freedom #thinking #EstherPerel My thoughts today are on taboo topics – specifically, death, sex, and money. This…

Thought for today: ‘Sometimes self-care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pyjamas. Whatever soothes your soul.’ — Nanea Hoffman #thoughtfortoday #selfcare #bingeTV #pyjamas #LordByron This describes my…

Thought for today: ‘There is pleasure in the pathless woods. There is rapture on 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 #thoughtfortoday #pathlesswoods #lovenature #LordByron With all that is going on in…

Thought for today: ‘What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.’ — Chris Maser #thoughtfortoday #lovetrees #forests #ChrisMaser A day off! Off to see the trees at Westonbirt National Arboretum, the last day before lockdown starts in…