Recent content by Paul Whybrow

“Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.” Joey Adams

"Boxing Day is a little like being a four-year-old for a day. It releases you from thinking about the future or the past. For twenty-four hours everything else is on hold. If you do Boxing Day properly you should feel like you’ve had a mini holiday – by the end of a Boxing Day you should feel...

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. Henry David Thoreau

"May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” Author unknown

"We all of us have limited amounts of energy, and I am sure the people who are successful have learned, either by instinct or consciously, to use their energies well instead of spilling them about. And this has to be different for every person, writers or otherwise. I know writers who go to...

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda

“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.” Publilius Syrus

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive. Samuel Goldwyn

“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” Orison Swett Marden

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg

I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential. Shaun King

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." Oscar Wilde

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside. Sigmund Freud

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” Golda Meir