“Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Deans The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; its the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.”

“Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage to be oneself, no matter what others might say.”

“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.”

“Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of ones self.”

“In with the new, out with the old. Thats what were told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.”

“Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.”

“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.”

“People dont realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart. J. Krishnamurti. The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any goo...”

“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten anothers dull ...”

“After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.”

“In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.”

“My life is an open book; at least this photo album".~R. Alan Woods [2013]”