Two tragedies in life:
1) Not getting what you want
2) Getting what you want
The issue is with the want

We can’t control the wind but we can adjust the sails

#Motivation #PositiveVibes #stoicism #Motivation alQuotes

‘And let’s away, to part the glories of this happy day’
Octavius
Julius Caesar

#williamshakespeare #shakespeare #juliuscaesar

‘The storm is up and all is on the hazard’
Cassius
Julius Caesar

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#shakespeare #juliuscaesar

‘I am armed so strong in honesty’
Brutus
Julius Caesar

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#shakespeare #juliuscaesar

‘Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war’
Mark Anthony
Julius Caesar

#williamshakespeare #shakespeare
#juliuscaesar

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths’
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare

#juliuscaesar #caesar #ShakespeareSunday #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #thebard

Great to meet Michael Mansfield to discuss his latest book #politics #injustice

‘I’m just like my father, a bastard son of a bastard’
Tom - The Glass Menagerie

#theglassmenagerie #glassmenagerie #tennesseewilliams

#Invincible #invictus #poetry #POEMS #wehenley

‘The telephone man who fell in love with long distance’
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

#glassmenagerie #tennesseewilliams #theglassmenagerie

‘All pretty girls are traps and all men expect them to be’
Amanda - The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

#tennesseewilliams #glassmenagerie #StLouis

‘What makes hospitals happiest is when the patient says he is having bowel movements’

Knife - Salman Rushdie
#salmanrushdie #knife #rushdie

There would be no W R I T E T R A I L without the writer’s tale.

Salman Rushdie and the magic that is writing 🖤

#thewritetrail #writing #writer #writer slift #FoodForThought #letscreate #Magic #WritingCommunity #Rushdie #author #book #book s #words #words matter #writing life

‘Art is a waking dream’
Knife - Salman Rushdie
#salmanrushdie #knife #rushdie

‘You’re lucky that the man who attacked you had no idea how to kill a man with a knife’ 🔪
Surgeon to Salman Rushdie
Knife
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‘Many people were praying for me, even though they knew I was a godless bastard’
Knife - Salman Rushdie
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Taedium vitae

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‘The mass of people lead lives of quiet desperation’
Henry Thoreau

#thoreau #henrythoreau

‘Where is my past life, what has become of it - when I was young, happy and intelligent, when I had such glorious thoughts and visions, and my present and future seemed so bright and promising?’
Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters
#chekhov #threesisters #antonchekhov #Russianliterature