Category: Thought for Today

Thought for today: ‘Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.’ — Lou Holtz #thoughtfortoday #attitude #motivation #ability A weekend of relaxing, planning, creating, fixing, laughing, loving, baking and more baking beckons.

Thought for today: ‘A psychologist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergère and looks at the audience.’ — Mervyn Stockwood #thoughtfortoday #psychologist #observer Friday rolls round once more, and as is my wont, a lighter quote to end a significant week for us all.

Thought for today: ‘Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers – perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not…

Thought for today: ‘One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu –…

Thought for today: ‘Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living, heart-breaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s…

Thought for today: ‘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 with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.’ — L R Knost #thoughtfortoday #love…

Thought for today: ‘Show respect to people who don’t even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.’ — Dave Willis #thoughtfortoday #respect #character There was a time when I thought the virus and lockdown lead to change for the better and yet we seem less able to…

Thought for today: ‘The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.’ — Jordan Belfort #thoughtfortoday #procrastination #goals I realise on this fine Saturday morning that it is time to do something I meant to do all week – that…

Thought for today: ‘I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.’ — Terry Pratchett #thoughtfortoday #thinking #outsidethebox Friday has come around quickly thanks to the holiday Monday. It’s been an up and down week for my clients, and this affects my drive, so…

Thought for today: ‘Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.’ — Wilferd A. Peterson #thoughtfortoday…