"Love treads ever so lightly across ground where it previously fell." William Forde: October 31st, 2012
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Thought for today:
"Love treads ever so lightly across ground where it previously fell." William Forde: October 31st, 2012
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Thought for today: "Love's glory is not a small thing nor is the love of one's life. We can only truly taste life in those treasured moments when we are aware of who we are, where we came from, what we are about, and when our hearts are conscious of our many blessings that spring from nature's well." William Forde: October 30th, 2012 Thought for today: "Insults may dampen one's disposition and put down one's dreams, but nothing connects like kindness. Kindness is much more than the deed itself. It is an attitude of mind, an expression of personality, a look filled with gentleness and a touch that moves the spirit. In short; it is anything that lifts another person." William Forde: October 29th, 2012. "A butterfly's heart and wings beat in a pulse of perfect love synchronisation. It is this endearing phenomena which makes it fly into the heat of the flame in the direction of its heart's desire in order to taste true love, and in doing so, place all of its past and future experiences on the plate of love's forfeiture for one moment of the heart's madness." William Forde: October 28th, 2012. Thought for today: "May those who cherish a beautiful vision and a lofty ideal in their hearts, one day day realise it. May those who dislike discord and disagreement always prosper in peaceful union with both neighbour and friend. May all who feel brave enough to venture forth in a cloud of uncertainty towards their body's wants and heart's desire eventually fulfil their destiny." William Forde: October26th, 2012. Thought for today: " I remember as a young boy on the estate where I grew up during the 1950s, the games that boys and girls would innocently play during the evenings, to occupy the idle hours between the end of the school day and settling down in bed for the night. Armed with very little money, we used whatever imagination and skill we possessed, along with everyday items that could be found laying about the home or even covering the dustbin to facilitate our fun. Spinning tops, hopskotch, skipping ropes from washing lines, marbles, conkers, cricket against the lamp post, football in the street and kick can and hook it were but a few games I recall. Cowboys and Indians were enacted, aided by mother's brush handle that stood in as a sturdy steed as the boy ran astride it with a hankerchief covering their mouth as they played the part of a cowboy 'baddie'. Indeed, all it took to transform any snotty-nosed estate kid into Sitting Bull, Chief of the great Sioux nation was one chicken feather fastened around their head. A dustbin lid was often made to double as Ivanhoe's shield and mother's long-handled baking spoon or dad's bicycle pump as the knight's trusty sword. As we approached our teenage years, the more curious among us might persuade a few of the girls to play 'Post Man's Knock' where the reward was a kiss. It was only after one had played the more grown-up game of 'I will if you will' that one realised that childhood games had ended and work in the mill loomed on the horizon." William Forde: October 25th, 2012. Thought for today: "Show me the way and bring me everlasting peace and contentment.You shame me into silence with the natural fragrance of your gentle kindness and I am reminded of the restraints that I allow to bind my actions as I see you live out of your imagination. Fly high and far oh bird of peace and let not your talons touch ground until you reach your nest of eternal love." William Forde: October22nd, 2012. Thought for today: "The attributes and qualities of any 'good man' are any or all of those to be found in any 'good woman'.Their hearts beat at the same pace and their blood runs at the same body pressure. Cut both and both bleed and pain in equal measure. And yet, when each of the sexes fall ill, it always takes the man the longest to fully recover. Is this because man's constitution is weaker than that of woman's or simply because males make better nurses and are more natural carers?" William Forde: October21st, 2012. Thought for today: "Love with kindness brings with it no separation, whereas love with want will drive you farther apart. Be kind to those you love and kinder still to those you like not and on the day of final reckoning, your life throw of the dice will be counted in your favour." William Forde: October 20th, 2012. Thought for today: "Would you rather be a pilgrim on the road to love where your past pain is carried openly on your back or a more secret suitor who prefers to stand on the shifting sands between truth and deceit, only to reveal all carriage when the goods are unpacked and laid out for view?" William Forde: October 19th, 2012. Thought for today: "The more satisfactory life is not measured by what you have, but what you give away. It is ruled by what you put in and not what you take from it. It is only through the giving of pleasure to others, that more pleasure is bestowed on oneself. Thus, being selfless is not a sacrifice, but is instead the greatest of all personal rewards." William Forde: October 17th, 2012. Thought for today: "Walk with me steadily for I am intoxicated with your love and in harmony with your feelings. Keep my secret your most silent of thoughts as the future destiny of our union is given birth. Love comes on its own accord and I feel helpless to stop the avalanche of my feelings that accompany it." William Forde : October 15th, 2012. Thought for today: "Mark Twain advises us to 'Throw off the bowlines and sail away from the safe harbour.' We tend to play safe when we are children and are only prepared to rock the steady boat when we are young adults who are strong enough to make it back to shore if the boat capsizes. Then we settle down again when we first get married and acquire a mortgage, partner, family, job ambition and all the responsibilities we can bear. It is only when we acquire the status of 'senior citizen' do we reach a decisive cross road again; when we need to choose whether to hang up our boots or to sail out of safe harbour for the final voyage before the tide goes out and stays out. It is as though one has to be either young and bold to face the fear of choppy and uncertain passage across new seas, or older and more seasoned in senior citizenship not to allow any inherent dangers to deter." William Forde: October 14th, 2012. Thought for today: "Most problems in life are no more or no less than hassles with horns; prickly to touch ,yet can be safely handled. They essentially represent incomplete solutions of a greater whole;a thorny stalk still separated from its rose of fragrance and which still has to flower in full bloom. Problems are no more or less than clouds of mental doubt which will quickly clear soon after being confronted by the more positive and greater power of the sun. So, keep smiling if you want to keep solving." William Forde: 0ctober 13th, 2012. Thought for today: "In the silence of love is found the peace of shifting sands. In the absence of charity you will discover the harshest of hearts that beats to the scream of human pain. In the frustration of uneasy sound lies the explosive anticipation of a ticking time bomb. In the smallest spark of life is found the width and breadth of all humanity." William Forde: October 12th, 2012. "If you want to stand out from the rest of the crowd, it pays to be a first-rate version of yourself than a second-rate version of someone else. If you want your words to be remembered, only voice those that originate from your own thoughts. Want these things in this way and who knows, you may even taste both toffee and the apple before the stick of life is snatched from you." William Forde: October 8th, 2012. |
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