05
Feb
2022

Beaten Better

    Be beaten to be bettered, not worse.

08
Jan
2022

Begin At The End

    Always start with the end in perspective. (Pic from Robert Greene’s ‘The Daily Laws’)

08
Jan
2022

Constant Process

    Death is a constant process of living too – since there is rebirth. (Pic from Robert Greene’s ‘The…

09
Nov
2021

Past As Prologue; Not Epilogue

    Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come,  in yours and my discharge. — William Shakespeare

09
Nov
2021

Accord With Truth(fulness)

    Choose continually and unswervingly the things which are according to nature, and reject those contrary to nature. —…

09
Nov
2021

When To Say Anything

    I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid. — Cato The…

09
Nov
2021

Who, What & When?

    If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being only for myself, what am…

09
Nov
2021

Duty As Joy

    I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked…

02
Nov
2021

Situation Or Self

    When we are no longer able to change a situation,  we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor Frankl

02
Nov
2021

Change Or Accept

    Either we change our fate, if possible, or we willingly accept it, if necessary. — Viktor Frankl

02
Nov
2021

Change Your ‘Fate’

    Character is destiny. — Heraclitus

02
Nov
2021

Watch The Clouds Arise

    行到水穷处, 坐看云起时。 — 王维 《终南别业》 When walking, arriving at where the water ends, sit and watch the clouds arise….

26
Oct
2021

Small Steps Towards Big Things

    Well-being is realised by small steps, but is truly no small thing. — Zeno of Citium

26
Oct
2021

Stand Higher On Misfortune

    If I step onto my misfortune, I stand higher. — Friedrich Hölderlin

26
Oct
2021

Power To Choose

    Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response….

26
Oct
2021

This As Your Second Act

    Live as if you were living for the second time and as if you had acted the first…

26
Oct
2021

Why Precedes How

    Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

26
Oct
2021

Live For Something

    Life is not something. It is the opportunity for something!   — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

26
Oct
2021

What Matters

    It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. — Epictetus

23
Oct
2021

Walk On

    (From Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury) If your path is right on, it is only…