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“The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.” Seneca
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.
Yiddish Proverb
How could something so simple, Inspire so very much, Each time I’m in the hammock, I heal again to love.
“The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]”
― Dan Kieran, The Book of Idle Pleasures
EASY DOES IT
Glac bog an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bog tú
Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.
EASY DOES IT.
http://www.glcom.com/hassan/kanga.html
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Lia na tabia yako usilaumu wenzako |
Blame your character not your fellows |
It’s very easy to blame others whenever one faces a problem. This writing is a reminder that sometimes the blame should be on the “man in the mirror” – that is, yourself! |
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Buckminster Fuller 1895 – 1983 
Burra Record (SA : 1878 – 1954), Wednesday 12 July 1905,
There came an old man down the road, And, O, he whistled fine
Whistling Men
by Mary Gilmore (1865-1962)
Australian writer
There came an old man down the road,
And, O, he whistled fine,
He brought a tune from out the wind –
A wind as cold as brine;
He took the pain from out the world,
And saved this heart of mine.
And down the stairway by my door,
Two days ago I heard
A whistling boy come hopping by
As if he were a bird;
I felt as though I were a leaf
A happy air had stirred.
God gave the whistling mouth to man
That he old griefs might drive
Back to the dens from which they came.
And keep his soul alive.
A whistling man makes life as sweet
As honey in a hive.
http://alldownunder.com/australian-authors/mary-gilmore/whistling-men.htm
Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 – 1954), Monday 20 June 1949,
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. – Stephen Baker
http://www.catquotes.com/catquotes4.htm
Foreign Kittens
Kittens large and Kittens small,
Prowling on the Back Yard Wall,
Though your fur be rough and few,
I should like to play with you.
Though you roam the dangerous street,
And have curious things to eat,
Though you sleep in barn or loft,
With no cushions warm and soft,
Though you have to stay out-doors
When it’s cold or when it pours,
Though your fur is all askew–
How I’d like to play with you!
A Selection of Kitten Verse by Oliver Herford
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires….” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked. ~Lambert Jeffries
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
– Carl R. Rogers
A cloudy sala often purabens to a fino divvus.
A cloudy morning often changes to a fine day.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/roma/egl/egl08.htm
We are all wanders of this earth; our hearts are full of wonder and our souls are full of dreams.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
― Paul Valéry
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.
African
The human heart is never satisfied, just like the snake that wants to swallow an elephant.
Chinese
EASY DOES IT
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By practising the hand you learn how to draw pictures, by practising the tongue you learn to speak classical Tamil. " All things are difficult before they are easy."
"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"
Al buen entendedor, pocas palabras bastan.
To a good listener, few words are enough (understanding comes easy).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Spanish_proverbs
foto – jamberoo action park 2010
Charles E. Wilson. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.
Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1833-1870
foto – stepping stones and rocks at bilambil cottage dec 2008.
Take it easy, you’ll speed better.
"A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases : based on Macintosh’s collection"
At Ease
Most wounds can Time repair;
But some are mortal – these:
For a broken heart there is no balm,
No cure for a heart at ease –
At ease, but cold as stone,
Though the intellect spin on,
And the feat and practiced face may show
Nought of the life that is gone;
But smiles, as by habit taught;
And sighs, as by custom led;
And the soul within is safe from damnation,
Since it is dead.
Walter de la Mare
foto – bilambil cottage garden
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius
The Way of Heaven
It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it knows how to overcome; not to speak, and yet it knows how to obtain a response; it calls not, and things come of themselves; it is slow to move, but excellent in its designs.
foto – laying cables in coldstream street 2009
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