A place for me to share with you the quotes that are inspiring me while I spend a year of my life in Ghana! I hope that by sharing these each and every one of you can draw inspiration from at least some of them too...!
"Our brushes meet in the middle and mix to make my new favourite colour"
"She experiences the familiar melting sensation that overcomes her in his presence. She seems to be changing in ways that sometimes alarm her, as though she is riding a flood tide in a paper-light-canoe- buoyed up, exhilirated, but not at all sure she is in control."
"To be an adult is to rise to uncertain and alarming challenges."
"Only by being respected can a man truly win love, since for a woman, love must contain an element of awe."
"You may claim that it is courageous to accept your assessment of yourself, but to do so is a way of abdicating the responsibilities of life. Such cynicism gives you license to give up and make no effort. All failures are excused in advance."
"You can throw off your past and finally relish in the unfamiliarity of all things new."
"It is really such small differences that determine the course of a life."
"She considers herself a well-travelled woman, and from each place she has been to, she has brought away a prejudice as a souvenir."
"News travels fast, even where there are no roads or railways, news or its nebulous cousin rumour, travels like lightning over vast distances."
"You can’t leave anything behind, you bring it all with you, whether you want to or not."
"Forget the predrawn stencils of what life should be, lets live life one bristle at a time, not to split hairs, but to paint life freehand""Fear not the strangeness that you feel, the future has to enter us long before it happens"
"Our brushes meet in the middle and mix to make my new favourite colour"
"So we just sit there our heads bent together like flowers in the small hours of the morning. The light wanders in like a warning that time is passing, bit by bit, everyday!"
"Love should be less like a flower and more like an earthquake"
"As we work for the greater good, we build happiness for ourselves and others. The more we do for other people, the more the path of our own happiness will open up. In realising this, we discover a sense of gratitude in being able to help them."
"It's never too late to stop and change the way you're going."
"Life is a continuous process of remaking ourselves"
"You’re never a loser until you quit trying"
"I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday"
"What you got is all you need, the rest is simply greed!""Fortune favours the brave, a successful person is often one who is willing to take risks."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart".
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."
"This is your life, are you who you want to be?"
"Sometimes the slightest things change the direction of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the Earth. Lives have swivelled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark..."
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness"
"Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary"
"Examine what is said not him who speaks"
"Dig the well before you are thirsty"
"When you’re right no one remembers, when you’re wrong no one forgets"
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past and the neglected opportunity"
"We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unearned applause"
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it"
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them"
"Doing an injury puts you below your enemy, revenging one makes you even with him, forgiving sets you above him"
"Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment"
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"
"The light at the end of your tunnel needs to be maintained""One seeks many times the reasons for his failures in the environment, which one considers hostile, when the place to look for them is inside oneself"
"It’s not enough to succeed, others must fail"
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved"
"It is not because things are difficult we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult"
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"You miss 100% of the chances you never take"
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret"
"In nature there are neither rewards or punishments there are consequences"
"Supposing is good but finding out is better"
"If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep"
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?"
"When all else is lost the future still remains"
"Speak the truth but leave immediately after"
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them"
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"
"Money talks but credit has an echo!"
"The kindest word is the unkind word left unsaid"
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save"
"True leadership is not in pleasing people, but in challenging them"
"When I was a young man I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man I tried to change my family. Now as an old man I realize the only thing I can change is myself. And suddenly, I realized that if I long ago had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town, and their impact could have changed the nation, and I could indeed have changed the world."
