It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature (Bram Stoker)

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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Bram Stoker, Dracula

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If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that (The Red Queen)

Alice looked round her in great surprise. ‘Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!’

‘Of course it is,’ said the Queen, ‘what would you have it?’

‘Well, in our country,’ said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.’

‘A slow sort of country!’ said the Queen. ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’

I want to seduce by means of imperceptible passages from one reality to another (Dorothea Tanning)

Endless doors, some open, some improbable, some closed, mostly ajar, showing worlds of possibilities.

One painting with sky for a ceiling and through a fireplace, breaking on through to the other side.

Wallpapers bulging and revealing other worlds from imagination bursting into rooms.

Imperceptible passages from one reality to another.

Yes, I visited the Dorothea Tanning exhibition at the Tate Modern recently and was overwhelmed by the ever moving worlds she creates in her paintings, textile sculptures and installations.

If you are in London, I really recommend a visit.

I can only do what feels right during these difficult times of transition and collective consciousness raising (Emma Thompson)

Emma Thompson is a person of integrity. 

I have admired her talent for a long time, now I have a new reason to admire her, having read this article in The Guardian on the train to London yesterday.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage (Anaïs Nin)

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I found this succinct response to an article on why girls excel over boys at school but not after they leave school, and wanted to share.

Counseling girls to be more confident, avoid overworking and economize efforts won’t be enough to help women catch up to men in the work force. Insistence that employers pay equal wages and combat sexual harassment will do far more.

One voice, one hope, one real decision (Queen)

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Examples of leadership are close by every day.

As I wondered past the Churchill statue at Westminster yesterday (on our way to the Abbey to light a candle for recently departed friends and family), I wondered what the great man would make of the current situation here.

Sadly, at the moment, in the UK, examples of political leadership are either in short supply or of poor quality.

Self-interest and political expediency rule the roost.

I am reminded of a simple quote that was a favourite of my mentor, Colin Prentice:

Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29:18)