Friday Frills

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with 

love, grace and gratitude."

Denis Waitley

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"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never

be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you

will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you."

Lao-Tzu 

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"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad." 

Arnold H. Glasgow

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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” 

 Leo Buscaglia

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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” 

Sri Ram

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"There is so much good in the worst of us, 

And so much bad in the best of us, that it 

ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."

James T Adams

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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

A.C Carlson

Happy Spring Day!

To mark the start of Spring, I am thrilled to be featured on the lovely blog, Becoming You. Blogging supermum Kathryn asked me a few interesting things about myself for her interview series called "What I..." You can read it here. I must admit that I hadn't really thought of any of these until she asked. It actually got me to philosophize a bit. Thanks Kathryn!

Wishing everyone on the south side of the globe a Happy Spring Day! 

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, 

a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic

 waiting somewhere behind the morning."

John Boyton Priestley

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I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience, 

In which I must stop, and look fear in the face...

I say to myself, 

I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along...

We must do the things we think we cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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“No matter where you are in life right now, 

No matter who you are, no matter how old you are, 

It is never too late to be who you are meant to be.” 

Esther & Jerry Hicks

Pic via Google Images

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This is one of my all-time favourite quotes...

Happy Woman's Day

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of... 

The heck with sugar and spice. 

Bethany Hamilton

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"One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall, whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” 

S.N. Goenka

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, 

By dreams that need completion,

By pure love that needs expressing,

Then we truly live life.

Greg Anderson

Happy Youth Day

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, 

the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, 

you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

Gossip Girls

Declarations of a Drama Queen



This is for anyone who's ever had anything said about them behind their back - which is probably everyone. I'm sure we've all been victims of the wicked word hurl called Gossip. It stems from half truths, hearsay, secret slipping, eavesdropping and a whole lot of miscommunication. Isn't it strange how rumours grow as they are spread along from person to person? What starts out as just one made up line about someone ends up being a descriptive, deceitful and damaging novel about them. According to Earl Wilson, 'Gossip' is "hearing something you like about someone you don't." No wonder it's so popular...



I have learnt that you can't stop people from talking about you, but you can chose not to let their words get the better of you. I have also learnt that you can't believe everything everyone tells you. You have to take rumours with a pinch of salt, or rather, a whole canister. I share with you some interesting, insightful, funny and slightly dramatic sayings about gossip.

*The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. Will Rogers.

*For anyone who talks about me, it's mind over matter. I don't mind and you don't matter.

*What you don't see with your eyes, you shouldn't invent with your mouth.

*The best gift for those who judge you are your shoes. Let them walk in it so that they know and understand what you've been through.

*A rumour without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. John Tudor.

*The only reason people talk behind your back is because you are already ahead of them.

*The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte.

*People's words affect you only as much as you let them.

*In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts, but only diminished. Pico Iyer.

*The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

*Calling someone fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone ugly doesn't make you prettier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. Ruining someone's life won't make yours any better. Adapted from Mean Girls. 

*The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde.

*I love my life...and apparently you do too. Drama Queen Quote

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Happiness is when what you think, 

what you say and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged,

To find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life,

But we can decide what happens in us,

How we can take it,

What we do with it,

And that is what really counts in the end.

Joseph Fort Newton