My Inspiration

Billy

Let me introduce you to my beloved Billy. I really believe he was God sent to me. He is a great example of how to live in the moment, bears no grudges, only eats when’s he’s hungry, exercises thankfully, enjoys life and is very affectionate, protective and sensitive.

A male in a million. (If/when I get a new Agony Aunt slot, I think he should be the Agony Uncle!) Billy is an absolute joy and I love him so much. He is clever and funny, loving and cuddly and a delight to have around. He brings such love and life with him and everyone who meets him falls for him!

Inspirational Books
Can-do Life Coaching
Motivational Quotes
Experienced Agony Aunt

Enjoy each and every one of these famous motivational quotes! I will be adding to them frequently and do please email me your favourites.

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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back."

Albert Camus

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."

Bernard M Baruch.

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

Harry Golden

"It only takes one match to light a forest fire - in a good way!"

Caroline Buchanan

"Be happy, it's one way of being wise."

Unknown.

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

Pablo Picasso

"The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive."

Said by Demi Moore in the film Indecent Proposal.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

Norman Vincent Peale

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

Roy Goodman

"Whether you THINK YOU CAN or you think you can’t YOU’RE RIGHT"

Henry Ford

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them for they’re always there."

Norman Vincent Peale

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

J.M. Barrie

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

Elbert Hubbard

"Great thoughts always come from the heart."

Marquis De Vauvenargues

"I also know that when I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."

Shakti Gawain

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."

Margaret Shepherd

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it."

Jesse Jackson, political activist, b. 1941

"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you the flowers."

Jorge Luis Borges

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Bernard Shaw

"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs."

Dan Zadra

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."

Eleanor Powell

"We only do well the things we like doing."

Colette

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

Stephen Hawking

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dress in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas A. Edison

"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."

Ralph W. Sockman

"Be yourself, everyone else is taken."

Oscar Wilde

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

Charlotte Bronte

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed."

Joseph Campbell

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts."

Winston Churchill

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

J.M. Power

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something while sitting down."

Charles F. Kettering

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi

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