“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius Recently, I read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditiations. I completely agree with the above quote. Writing this journal definitely helps me to organise my thoughts. Like everything in life though, I just need to find the time. I have been busy with…
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A long way in time.
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.” – Marcus Aurelius The above is something that I have to constantly remind myself when talking about politics in the UK. This place seems so divided at the moment. A little off topic there. I haven’t posted…
Adventure time!
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill. I have had plenty of failures. Just need a few more successes now. Nothing is more representative of Churchill’s quote here than learning a language. In my opinion, why you learn a language, it is almost constant failure until the…
Pictureless
“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy. I will confess, I have never read any of Leo Tolstoy’s works. Yesterday, I was feeling a little down. Which probably reflected in the post yesterday I suppose. Come thursday(Freedom day!) I will drive down south. I have never seen the white cliffs of Dover…
Work and play.
“What worries you masters you.” – John Locke Poignant, perhaps. These few days have seen me losing sleep trying to complete my assignment. I feel as though I belong in a classroom and not behind a computer. Hence why I have loved teaching all these years. The nature of the beast I suppose. As pointed…
3 is the magic number.
“the beginning is the most important part of the work” – Plato Carrying on from Aristotle yesterday, a bit of Plato today. Self congratulations are in order. Three days in a row I have been writing. I fail to remember how long it takes to form a new habit, is it 7 weeks? Regardless, this…
The Pomodoro Technique.
“no great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness” – Aristotle. In the case of the above quote, I can only hope to be a little mad. I would certainly consider his mentor Plato wilfuly submitting to death for the preserve of law and order a little crazy. The little mad thing that…
My First Post.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” That quote is from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. While I managed my way half way through the book at university I can’t claim to have actually read the book. The words come through clearly however, as starting my online journal…