Maturity begins when we are content to feel we are right about something,
without feeling the necessity to prove someone wrong.
Photo: Frenchman’s Cap, Tasmania. (c) Marie Trudinger 2011
Quote of the Week — Maturity
Strasbourg Cathedral, France
My guest this week is my grandson, William.
He writes:
We travelled overnight by bus from Brussels to Strasbourg, arriving around 4am. We were unable to check into the hotel until 6am., so we decided to walk around.
Walking down the street and seeing the cathedral dominating the sky was quite a spectacular sight.
The contrast between how empty the city was at that time, compared to after 9am was amazing.
If we had arrived later in the day we wouldn’t have been able to imagine the streets so empty.
Photo: Strasbourg Cathedral, France. (c) William Kling 2018
Quote of the Week — Money
Money can’t buy happiness,
but it’s a lot more comfortable crying inside a Ferrari ,
than on a bike.
(Anonymous)
Photo: Southwest National Park Tasmania. (c) David Trudinger circa 1990
Another Dutch Quote of the Week
Ve get too soon oldt undt too late schmart.
(Anonymous, Pennsylvania Dutch)
Photo by Marius Venter on Pexels.com
Quote of the Week– Change
I beg you, do not be unchangeable.
Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains that only he has the power
to reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul–
A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
(Greek philosopher Sophocles)
Photo: (c) Lee-Anne Kling circa 1980.
Quote of the Week–Music
Bach gave us God’s word,
Mozart gave us God’s laughter,
Beethoven gave us God’s fire,
God gave us music that we might pray without words.
(unknown)
Photo: Blue Mountains N.S.W. (c) Marie Trudinger circa 2000
Quote of the Week — Weight
A recent study has found that women who carry a little extra weight
live longer than the men who mention it.
(unknown)
Photo: Glen Helen Gorge N.T. (c) Marie Trudinger 2010
Quote of the Week — Imagine
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps planets revolving in their orbits,
and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
(Quentin Crisp)
Photo: Wild flowers in Central Australia. (c) Sam Gross, circa 1948.
Quote of the Week — Weather
There is something good in all weathers.
If it doesn’t happen to be good for my work today,
it’s good for some other man’s today,
and will come around for me tomorrow.
(Charles Dickens)
Photo: Approaching sunset in Ormiston Gorge N.T. (c) Marie Trudinger (2010)
Quote of the Week — Love
If you love something, set it free.
If it returns, you have not lost it.
If it disappears and never comes back, then it was never yours to begin with.
And if it just sits there watching television, unaware that it has been set free –
then you probably married it.
(unknown)
Photo: Ormiston Gorge, West MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory.
(c) Marie Trudinger, 2010.
Mrs T 