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Deborah K. Hanula has a year of Journalism training from Humber College, a Political Science degree from the University of Waterloo, and a Law degree from the University of British Columbia. In addition, she has Diplomas in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Child Psychology, and Psychotherapy and Counselling as well as a Family Life Educator and Coach Certificate and Certificates in Reflexology, Assertiveness Training, and Mindfulness Meditation. She is the author of five cookbooks, primarily concerned with gluten-free and dairy-free diets, although one pertains to chocolate. As an adult, in the past she worked primarily as a lawyer, but also as a university and college lecturer, a tutor, editor, writer, counsellor, researcher and piano teacher. She enjoys a multi-faceted approach when it comes to life, work and study, in order to keep things fresh and interesting. Check out her new book: A Murder of Crows & Other Poems (2023).

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Margaret Drabble on Certainty

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."  (Margaret Drabble)

Uplifting.

Churchill on Success and Failure

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal:  it is the courage to continue that counts."  (Winston Churchill)

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Wisdom of Dr. Seuss

"Today you are you, that is truer than true.
 There is no one alive who is youer than you."  (Dr. Seuss)

Fun stuff.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Confucius Says

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." (Confucius)

Guess we can exempt eating from this.

Socrates on Ignorance

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."  (Socrates)

(The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don't know.)

Seng Ts'an

"When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity, your very effort fills you with activity." (Seng Ts'an)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Actor, Ralph Fiennes on Success

"Success?  It is all about being able to extend love to people.  Not in a big, capital-letter sense, but in the everyday.  Little by little, gesture by gesture, word by word."  (Ralph Fiennes)

I love this notion.