In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.
I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.