There are three guides for the life of man. First is principle, which has been long and carefully tested; the second is experience, strengthened by long practice; and third, the authority of those ancients who could not have been easily deceived by anyone, and who appear not to have wished to deceive others. Attend more to what man has done than to what he has said, for many speak well, but few act well. (Marsilio Ficino) 

We say a person is a person through other persons. We don’t come fully formed into the world. We learn how to think, how to walk, how to speak, how to behave, indeed, how to be human, from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. We are made for togetherness, we are made for family, for fellowship, to exist in a tender network of interdependence.  (Desmond Tutu)


At this point I reveal myself in my true colours. I hold a number of beliefs that have been repudiated by the liveliest intellects of our time. I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven’t changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves. I also hold one or two beliefs that are more difficult to put shortly. For example, I believe in courtesy, the ritual of which we avoid hurting other people’s feelings by satisfying our own egos. And I think we should remember that we are part of a great whole, which for convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters. Above all, I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

Virtue – moral excellence, goodness, righteousness. A virtue is a positive trait of quality deemed to be morally good and this is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being

Love – If I know what love is, it is because of you.   (Herman Hesse)

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.  Vincent van Gogh

Where there is love there is no question.   (Albert Einstein)

Love does not consist of gazing at each other but looking in the same direction.   (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both directions.   (David Viscott)

Philosophy (The love of wisdom)

The bigger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of uncertainty. 

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!   (Eckhart Tolle)

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.        (Eckart Tolle)

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift and why it is called
The Present.

‘An eye for an eye will only
make the whole world blind.’              Mahatma Gandhi

‘Revenge is sweet and not fattening.’  Alfred Hitchcock

‘Before you embark on a journey        Japanese proverb
of revenge, dig two graves.’

We are all here on this planet, as tourists, as it were. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives.

                                                                           Dalai Lama