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Thursday, March 31, 2011

101 Life Quotes

1) And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln
2) Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~Albert Einstein
3) Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. ~John Lennon
4) Life is just a chance to grow a soul. ~Powell Davies
5) Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
6) Each person must live their life as a model for others. ~Rosa Parks
7) The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions. ~André Gide
8) I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey
9) Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin
10) Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key. ~Alan Bennett
11) For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus
12) Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller
13) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein
14) Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway. ~ Steven Coallier
15) Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov
16) Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset
17) The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie
18) Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Gandhiji
19) Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
20) Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. ~Wally ‘Famous’ Amos
21)Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. ~William Goldman
22) Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
23)A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella
24) Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~Richard Bach
25) Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Cherralea Morgen
26) We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown
27) The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps
28) In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. ~Charlie Brown
29) The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen
30) Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown
30) Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
31) As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown
32) I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
33) Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller
34) He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
35) Where there is love there is life. ~Indira Gandhi
36) Life is simple, its just not easy. ~Author Unknown
37)My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
38) I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
39) You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp
40) God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
41) Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
42) We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~Martin Luthor King, Jr.
43) To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire
44) The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle
45) Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
46) All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis
47)Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
48) Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood
49) What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? ~ George Eliot
50) The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~Marcus Aurelius
51) Live dangerously and you live right. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
52) Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. ~Henri Frederick Amiel
53) Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.” ~Maya Angelou
54) However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau
55) To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis
56) My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic
57) People do not live nowadays – they get about ten percent out of life. ~Isadora Duncan
58) Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
~James F. Bymes
59) Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre
60) If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~A. A. Milne
61) Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant
62) Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown
63) If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.~ Isaac Asimov
64) The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~Clarence S. Darrow
65) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau
66) I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey
67) Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov
68) Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie
69) In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin
70) The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo
71) Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.” ~From the movie Mansfield Park
72) To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler
73) Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris
74) When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain
75) The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
76) What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. Dalai Lama
77) Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. ~George Sand
78) A useless life is an early death. ~Goethe
79) Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ~George Santayana
80) Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~Dorothy Thompson
81) Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
82) Life is a quest and love a quarrel ~Edna St. Vincent Millay:
83) There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin
84) Without discipline, there’s no life at all. ~Katharine Hepburn:
85) Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer
86) Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin
87)Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, “Stand”
88) If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton
89) There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~José Ortega y Gasset
90) Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
91) For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ~William Blake
92) Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson
93) The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
94) To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
95) I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot
96) Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.~ Eliot Wiggington
97) The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
98) The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. ~Pearl S. Buck:
99) We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
100) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ~Samuel Butler
101) Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Monday, March 28, 2011

Enough is Enough

When is enough, enough and when do u just put up your hands and say no more..

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

No Comment

I have been wondering why nobody has left any comments on my blog, because I really do like getting comments about my posts whether they are good or bad, and I just realised that for some reason I now have to go into the Post options and then tick the button "Allow Comments" which I never had to do before, I hope you all wanted to leave me a comment and if you did, I have put it back on the past posts so please feel free to go and leave as many comments as you like!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

An Amazing Person


My friend Lisa introduced me to her neighbor a while ago, Emma - Emma gives Yoga lessons and she is such a lovely person, her daughter is similar in age to Emily and they hit it off, they had a few play dates and sleep overs.  I love listening to Emma's stories because she knows some famous Dublin people, so I was so saddened to hear that Emma had Breast Cancer, but she is one amazing lady and is so positive about it - here is video taken at her last Yoga class before she went into hospital for her op.

I will keep Emma in my thoughts and prayers as I hope you will after you watch this clip.  Thanks Lisa for sharing such a wonderful person with me.  The amount of courage she has is just phenomenal, and whenever I  am complaining about something please remind me of this.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor

I was so saddened to hear about the Death of Elizabeth Taylor, I can't say she was my favorite actress but I think she epitomized woman's beauty.  Most woman from her era wanted to be like her, she was probably the Angelina Jolie of the early 1950's.  She seems to be the last of the era of the "Victorian type actress" who I would put in the same category as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly, the actresses that my mother would follow in her days, which I think makes me realise that time has moved on and all those wonderfully talented Actors and Actresses from the 1950's and 60's will all soon be gone.  But their memory will live on forever.

Goodbye Elizabeth!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Dublin Wheel

For some Reason when I post my photos it turns them back to their original position have no idea how to fix this.  Anyway if you tilt your head to the left you can see the wheel.


A view of the Aviva Stadium, which used to be Landsdown Road - Regular home of Irish Rugby!

View onto The Liffey - Main River from Dublin harbor.


Facebook have some really good deals, I had bought a family ticket for the Dublin Wheel in December and it was about to expire, luckily we had perfect weather and could use the ticket to it's full advantage.  It's not as impressive as the London Eye, but then Dublin is small but we could see as far out as Howth and Dun Loaghaire and up to the Dublin Mountains, so well worth the trip.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Recycling

 The motorbike that Gwen bought for Emily, finally found a very welcome home, On Saturday Xavier become the new proud owner of Emily's pride possession and he was so chuffed, he looked just like James Dean!


Sunday, March 6, 2011

Commuters set Gauteng train alight

Commuters set Gauteng train alight: "A Metrorail train, travelling between Johannesburg and Pretoria, has been set alight, allegedly by commuters caught without tickets."

Saturday, March 5, 2011

M's Secret Pasta Sauce Recipe

1 onion, chopped
Pancetta or good quality smoked bacon chopped (amount depends on how much you like it)
2 cloves REAL garlic, crushed
1 tin good quality tomatoes
Tomato paste
beef stock
white wine (not essential)
Fresh Basil

Gently saute the onions without browning them.  This is important, do not tempted to rush this or you end up with crunchy white bits that taste like pineapple. 
When onions are nice and soft, turn up the heat and chuck in the bacon and garlic.  Stir around until the bacon is nicely cooked through. 
Add a splash of white wine (if you are using it) and allow it to cook to burn off the alcohol taste
Add the tomatoes and give it a good stir
Add a good splodge of tomato paste
Crumble half a beef stock cube in (or a whole one if you prefer more intense flavour)
Stir in a bit of the basil but save most for the end
Allow it to come to a quick bubble before turning right down to low. 
Leave it bubbling away for an hour or a bit longer, depending on your stove, stir occasionally.
You will know it's cooked when it starts to thicken.
Check the seasoning and add salt and pepper if necessary.  Stir in some freshly chopped basil.
Serve on pasta and spinkle with parmesan and fresh basil