Advice for the Learned

Life is like a candle: Sometimes it has to struggle for brightness,
(as experienced by Eleanor Roosevelt)

And a parable by Robert Service:
It isn't the mountain that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Emily Carr viewing her life through Nature,
she 'breathed new life not only into herself
but in the eyes and minds of her great country, concluding:
It's never too late to be what you might have been!

Someone, once said,
The greatest gift any human being can give to another
is the gift of a 'good example.'

Five Things You Cannot Recover in Life:
A stone thrown!
An occasion forgotten!
A Word spoken!
A time ~ gone!
A love ~ lost!

Observation by Buddha:
Space is an empty space ~ home of the awakened wind.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds, believing them to be true!

Queen Rania of Jordan observed:
People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol
and formality ~ and for that reason, sometimes people are not easily saying
what they want to say!

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
And anyone who considers protocol unimportant, has never dealt with a cat!
(Robert A. Heinlein’s opinion)

Words by Adlai Stevenson:
A diplomat's life is made up of 3 ingredients:
Protocol...Geritol...and Alcohol...???

Humour from Benjamin Franklin:

In humour, there is Wisdom.
In beer, there is Freedom,
In water, there is Bacteria!

Mark Twain observed that kindness is the language the blind can see
and the deaf can hear!

Advice from Dr. Phil:
If you don't bend, you'll break; Stay flexible in life!
An economist, an expert, who will know tomorrow,
why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

Michael Jordan, a basketball player stated: To be successful, you have to be selfish...or else you never achieve! And once you get to your highest level, you have to be unselfish. Stay Reachable!

Author and Sociologist, Eric Hoffner states: In times of change, LEARNERS inherit the Earth,
while the LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists!

Albert Einstein, explaining 'Relativity': When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour!

Marriage is like Bridges: You start out with 2 hearts and and a diamond ~ and you end up wishing it was a Club and a Spade!

Some Days, you're the pigeon. Some days you're the statue!
My memory is so bad, I can hide my own Easter eggs!

Women are Angels! And when someone breaks her wings, we continue to fly.
We're flexible,like that.

From the cartoon, MUTTS: A vacation is having nothing to do...and all the day to do it in!”

If Emily Carr's artistic brush could speak: Pictures should be inspired by Nature, and made in the soul by the artist, herself, expressed in 1912.

Positive View of Life:
Smell every flower...fly with every bird...and find Beauty and Wisdom
since Wisdom is found wherever there is Beauty.
She believed that 'a new country, like Canada,' needed to be painted in a new way.

Born in Victoria in 1871, she spent most of her life in B.C. Carr embarked on her most prolific painting period depicting the forests...and British Columbia...and First Nations' villages with their totem poles. Carr infused her compositions with movement through a variety of contrasting shapes.

Emily Carr viewed her life ~ and through Nature, breathed new life, not only into herself, but in the eyes and minds of her great country!

Proverb: The best time comes, after the hardest climb!

John A. Shield's famous quote: A ship in the harbour is safe ~
but it is not what ships are built for!

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