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Category: Thought for Today

  • 14th October 2020

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    Thought for today:   ‘When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.’   — The 14th Dalai Lama   #thoughtfortoday #talk #listen #learn #dalailama   On April 14th 2020 I started writing a blog post under the title Thought For Today.   Slowly…

  • 13th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.’ — Brené Brown #thoughtfortoday #empathy #understanding #shame #brenebrown I haven’t used a Brené Brown quote before, yet I listen to her podcast a lot. I recommend it if you are so minded, I find her…

  • 12th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Right now, you are one choice away from a new beginning — one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.’ — Oprah Winfrey #thoughtfortoday #choice #newbeginning #potential #selfactualisation #oprah I haven’t used an Oprah quote before, and this one has been on my list for a while.…

  • 11/10/2020

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    Thought for today:   ‘Psychotherapy is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.’   — Thomas Szasz   #thoughtfortoday #psychotherapy #confidential #conversation #notfixing   That was World Mental Health Day (yesterday).   My social feeds are now full of something else.   The conversation has moved on, just…

  • 10th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?’ — C S Lewis #thoughtfortoday #NothingChanges #EverythingDifferent #WorldMentalHealthDay This is World Mental Health Day. A day when I can reflect on the work I have done in the year just gone. How day by day…

  • 9th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.’ — Theodore Isaac Rubin #thoughtfortoday #kindness #recognition #wisdom As the UK slips and slides towards a tightening lockdown, we are going to need kindness more than ever. A demonstration of unexpected kindness is possibly the best…

  • 8th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘I am the undertow Washing tides of power Battering the pillars Under your things of high law.’ — Carl Sandburg #thoughtfortoday #undertow #power #highlaw #carlsandburg It is funny the things you learn along the journey of life. Many years ago I had a high school physics textbook with a poem on the…

  • 7th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it will get you the right ones.’ — John Lennon #thoughtfortoday #honesty #friends #rightones #johnlennon How can it be almost 40 years since John Lennon was shot? I remember the day well, I was living in a (very cold) farm cottage…

  • 6th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that you are.‘ — Mandy Hale #thoughtfortoday #beyourself #imperfect #quirky #magical Has there ever been a time when so many people try to portray themselves as “perfect”. It takes an unbelievable toll on those doing it and…

  • 5th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’ — Steve Jobs #thoughtfortoday #hungry #foolish #imnovate #entrepreneur It is hard to believe that Steve Jobs died 9 years ago. He embodied that driven, passionate and adventurous entrepreneurial spirit. If the biopics and biographies are to be believed he also had his flaws, don’t we all? Maybe one…