We Are All Angels With Only One Wing

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
(Emily Dickinson)

Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
(Maya Angelou)

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
(Seneca)

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
(Meister Eckhart)

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
(Kahlil Gibran)

Judge nothing, you will be happy…. Forgive everything, you will be happier…. Love everything, you will be happiest.
(Chinmoy)

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
(Luciano De Crescenzo)

Quotes From Bruce Lee

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

As you think, so shall you become.

I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Real living is living for others.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

If there is a God, he is within.
You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

A ‘Simple Girl’ Executed With A Bullet In The Back Of Her Head

25-year-old He Xiuling was not a hardened criminal but a simple girl from the countryside sucked into the drugs trade and used as a ‘mule’ by a domineering boyfriend.
Worse still, it appears she was led to believe she might receive a lighter sentence if she confessed.
She did just that – and was condemned to death.
At her trial Xiuling had pleaded to the judge: ‘Please give me a second chance to live. I want to live. I am still young.’
But while wealth and political connections can often secure leniency in China, Xiuling had neither.
Just nine months after her court appearance she was executed with a bullet in the back of her head.
Such was her naivety she believed right to the end that she would be spared and handed a 15-year jail term.
She excitedly told fellow inmates: ‘I’ll still only be 40 when I’m free.’
More prisoners are executed in China every year than in the rest of the world combined.

A website believed to be based in Hong Kong, turned their anger on Chinese officials who notoriously escape severe sentences for serious crimes.
One comment read: ‘What these women did is nowhere near as bad as what corrupt officials in China do. They are the ones who should be shot.’

Life Is Like Going Through A Storm

The moon and the stars are there to guide us…. to talk to when we are lonely…. to look up to when we are sad…. and to shout at when we are angry.

Our dreams can travel fast and far, reaching out to touch a star…. breaking free from time and space, soaring beyond this mundane place.

Sometimes I’m glad, sometimes I’m sad…. sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down…. but my soul still feels heavenly bound.

Our life is like going through a storm, avoiding the thunder and lightning…. until we reach the rainbow.

Live your life laughing…. so that when you die you’re smiling…. and all those at your funeral are crying.

Very few things in life are really important.
Life has to be lived, and that’s all there is to it.

The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.

Was The Belgrano Sunk To Sabotage Peace Plans?

While everyone is raving about Margaret Thatcher because of the film The Iron Lady, may I just pay tribute to another woman: The one who confronted her on TV over the sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War.
In 1983 this ‘ordinary’ woman challenged the Prime Minister live on Nationwide.
The woman was a PE teacher but she knew her geography.
She said the ship was sunk to sabotage the Peruvian peace plans that were on the table.
‘One day’, said a rattled Mrs Thatcher, ‘ the facts will be published’.
‘That is not good enough, Mrs Thatcher’, replied this formidable woman.
That bit of history is not in the film.
Diana Gould has now passed away at the age of 85.
I just wanted to say she is not forgotten.
(Suzanne Moore)

The Green Cult Is Immune To Facts And Logic

Astonishing pictures of a giant windmill exploding in flames – because there is too much wind – ought to seal the fate of these ugly, costly, futile intrusions into the landscape.
But the green cult is immune to facts and logic.
Instead, we will build more of them, and you will pay.
(Peter Hitchens)

Learn How To Be Happy

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone, and everyone can make life a little easier for someone.

All the darkness in the world cannot put out the sparkle of a warm smile.

Don’t listen to the advice of people whose lives you don’t want.
Make your own decisions from your heart, and live the life you want.

Learn from your mistakes…. don’t judge your life…. leave the bad bits behind…. the good bits in your memories…. and live for today.

Stay positive about the direction you are going in…. lose your fear of being wrong…. and never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

Learn how to be happy…. be content with what you have…. while you pursue what you want.

The past is the past, it made you who you are…. have no regrets…. you don’t live there anymore…. move on…. and be happy.

Always look at what you have now, and be thankful, and never look back at what you have lost.

However good or bad you life may be, just be thankful you still have one.

Drugs To Erase All Emotions

I worry that we live in a Prozac society in which any extreme of emotion is considered unhealthy.
A rounded person experiences a range of emotions, be they happy, sad, jealous, lonely and afraid, whatever.
All emotions are welcome and absolutely OK.
That we should take some kind of drug to erase our emotions and be in a permanently tranquillised state of equilibrium is ridiculous.
(Sharon Stone)

The Feelings In My Heart

Even though I’ve often tried,
No words can quite express,
The feelings in my heart for you,
The warmth and tenderness.
You light my world and bring me joy,
I’ve never felt like this before.
And that is why, with every day,
I only love you more.

Loving someone as special as you….
Means that my heart is always filled with pride….
And my life is always filled with happiness….
Because loving you….
Is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Our Dreams Can Travel Fast And Far

Our thoughts are wings that carry us,
In a way most marvelous.
Backward into memory’s maze,
Or forward into unborn days.
Our dreams can travel fast and far,
Reaching out to touch a star.
Breaking free from time and space,
Soaring beyond the mundane place.