Life Changing Experience

The man is happiest

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. Euripides

Fortify yourself with contentment,

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetus

And all may do

And all may do what has by man been done. Edward Young

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, ‘I have been through worse.’ Delta Goodrem

Men spend their lives

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of … Read more

There are about five

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration. Bryan Hayes

When I want to

When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness does not consist

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Aristotle

Outing someone is like

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly. Anthony Venn-Brown

Never say more than

Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan