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Everything boils down to love and compassion - or its absence.

Everything is just for a while. Everything is just for its time. Everything is finite. Live and love with these precious moments in mind.

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on track... and nourished along the way.

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start the day for you. Have some at lunchtime and again at dinner too. It will energise and sustain you - the whole day through. But it will also leave you room, power and the thirst to do what you need to do and contribute.

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it.

Happiness is not a thing - it is a feeling; a way of joyful living and being. It comes from inner fulfilment and appreciating the world you live in.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be invited to it and reminded of it.

I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be reminded of it and invited to it and reminded of it.

If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.

If you feel that you are going without go within

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.

I'm often called in as a coach and speaker to motivate staff, teams, the public and leaders. The key to this is simple; you cannot truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are...what motivates them...?

In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking

In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony

Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive.

In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

It is better to revel in life than to wallow in it.

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will really create rich opportunities in your life, career, business – and in the world. It’s is your ability to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, add value to that of others that will.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.

It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.

It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.

It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.

It takes each and every soul to illuminate this world

I've come to realise that the real magic is when you live a life in which others, not just yourself, truly benefit for you living it.

I've found that trying to be like everyone else, do what others do and follow others 'guaranteed path' to 'so-called success' never really works for me. I have found my best strategy is to authentically be me, listen within and follow it....and then to treat and connect with others - wherever I can - personally, personably and individually.