http://www.hp.europe.de/kd-europtravel/gaelic/proverb.htm
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 23 September 1933
Category Archives: HARD TIMES
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.” Mario Cuomo
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. THOMAS FULLER
Am fear dan dàn a’chroich, cha tèid gu bràth a bhàthadh.
Who is born to be hanged will never be drowned.
After a storm comes a calm.
foto- storm on waterfall way nr bellingen jan 2014
Before a rain storm:
Cats will clean themselves more and meow more,
Cow and sheep will huddle together seeking comfort,
Horses “switch and twitch” and sometimes bolt,
Insects fly lower and bite more, and
Birds chirp louder.
It’s all very simple. But maybe because it’s so simple, it’s also hard.” Natsuki Takaya
A thistle is a thistle is sometimes a thistle in name only. So it is with creeping
knapweed, aka hardhead thistles or just hardheads.
Hardheads might be hard to grasp taxonomically. Not so in practice. Unlike thistles,
the hardhead, all knapweeds in fact, are spineless.
Noëlle Janaczewska
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
Henry Kissinger
http://www.hardasrocks.info/diamond-quotes.htm
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
Chinese
“It’s as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining.”
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship
“I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
John Keats
“Sometimes I feel alone. Some days are long and hard. But when I look out into this world, I am struck by the impossible beauty of it all. Those billions of magnificent accidents that led us to where we are today, that led us to paper planes and nautilus shells and the tiny, crooked smiles of children. When I think about the small perfections of the world, I have faith that my time will come. I have faith that someday, a warm light will flood over me and I will find peace.”
― Avery Monsen, All my friends are dead
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
― Frida Kahlo
Sky is too high to fly to, the ground is too hard to get in.
A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
Adversity builds character. After a storm, things will stand on more solid ground than they did before.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Japanese_proverbs
THE STORM
The waves were breaking on the
rocks,
The wind was howling near,
And all the ships were safe at
dock,
Or tied up to the pier.
Flies will swarm before a storm.
Advice is not compulsion. Ger.
"Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically"
Hard is the choice when one is compelled either by silence to die with grief or by speaking to live with shame. Benjansoti.
foto – devon pixie with chook feather 2010
Cicadas can’t vibrate their wings when the humidity is very high, so may be silent when rain is approaching. Flying insects are more active when the air pressure drops and stay closer to the ground, so they seem to be swarming before a rain storm.
http://www.wxdude.com/proverb.html
"The fakir upon his bed of nails is happier than is that
Toughness of hide could blunt more ills,
Than can be dodged or fought,
The lesson is well taught.
And happiness, pivoted elate
On peace of mind, health, sleep,
Food kindered, good support like that
Knows to where wounds can creep
Or suddenly sink deep."
Robert D Fitzgerald. “Glad World”
"When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him." Hindu Proverb
"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean."
japanese
foto – frog in ulmarra tree 2009 dec
If one cannot do as one wishes, one does as one can.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
GREEK. ty
http://www.special-dictionary.com/proverbs/keywords/wishes/3.htm
foto – izzy foreal and andrew hegedus at wide river cafe ulmarra 2009 november
A bad year has little fruit, and distress but few friends.
African.
The fruit of blessing grow on the tree of hardship.
foto – small peaches in coldstream street ulmarra nov 09.
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