Recent content by Paul Whybrow

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Brontë (from Jane Eyre)

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. John Buchan

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.” Jason Soroski

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” Horace

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them. Charles Bukowski

'My stories run up and bite me in the leg. I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.' Ray Bradbury

“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