Quotes

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods               and they will then take ten steps toward you.                                  That step, the heroic first step of the journey,                        is out of, or over the edge of,                                   your boundaries and it often must be taken                                                    before [...]

This seems particularly appropriate in the light of Thursday’s post. I’m having a lovely time up in Sydney this week and a little piece of Spring has been imported into this cold and Wintery world (I live in Australia and whilst all you Northern Hemisphere folk are basking in wall to wall sunshine, we Aussies [...]

There is no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. Rufus Wainwright