REFLECTIONS

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

HENRY JAMES

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

JOHN LUBBOCK

Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.

JENNY UGLOW

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of young people.

KAILASH SATYARTHI Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

VICTOR HUGO

I’d say to someone who’s standing there in a room and they feel like there’s no windows, no doors, it’s all black… to take time and a door will open. Someone will be at that door.

DONAL WALSH

There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it; if only we’re brave enough to be it.

AMANDA GORMAN

I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

When we show up, act boldly, and practice the best ways to be wrong, we fail forward. No matter where we end up, we’ve grown from where we began.

STACEY ABRAMS

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

MARGARET MEAD

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

FRANK CLARKE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

MARIE CURIE

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

HELEN KELLER

Separating ourselves from the young ought to be done gracefully. They will love you more if they feel you are fading out with a smile. You have to be prepared to disappear benignly once your job is done.

MAURICE CHEVALIER

This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can… reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah’.

LEONARD COHEN

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.

LEONARD COHEN

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

VIRGINIA WOOLF