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William Forde, 6th May, 2012.
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"Vincent Van Gogh believed that the best way to know life was to love many things. I recall when I spent over 5 years researching cat behaviour for my trilogy, 'The Kilkenny Cat', that when I started writing the books, I hated cats and everything about them. By the time I'd done 5-years research on cats, I became a bit of an expert on their behaviour. The important thing however, was that I finished up loving cats. It just goes to show that we automatically dislike what we know nothing of and when we learn a great deal about any human or creature, we naturally finish up liking them better, understanding them more and even loving them. This must be what Vincent Van Gogh was on about. Come to think of it, so was Jesus!" Click for a free download of 'The Kilkenny Cat.'" William Forde, 6th May, 2012.
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"Winston Churchill was perhaps one of the most courageous leaders this country ever had and yet, he was always man enough to face up to whatever lay ahead. He reminded England in those dark days of the Second World War when we looked as though we were on the verge of defeat 'not to lose courage' for the task ahead. He knew that the only way he could keep up the nation's courage while going from failure to failure on the battle front was never to lose one's enthusiasm and zest for the way of life we all loved." William Forde 5th May. 2012 "Love is the greatest, yet the most elusive of all emotions. To truly have it one must be prepared to lose it. To love is to surrender the freedom of the head to the heart. To surrender freedom is to embrace the posssibility of loss. To embrace loss is to be open to let yourself love. Still, it is better to have loved and lost than to have lost all chance of love." William Forde 4th May, 2012. "In every problem situation, while there is not always an option at one's disposal, there is always a choice to make. St George had two options. He could either kill the dragon or let it ravage. He chose to kill. On the other hand, Jonah didn't have an option in his problem situation when the whale engulfed him, but he still had a choice of what to do. He chose to lie within its belly until circumstances opened a path to the light. This was not 'passive waiting', but a thoughtful one that allowed him to work out what had happened and what he could do about it. Life will always provide one with options, especially on those occasions where the taking of one path as opposed to the other may lead to you getting lost in the emotional wilderness." William Forde 1st May, 2012. |
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