This is so totally true!! :)I always buy people books . . . not just for Christmas!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/13-clever-signs-that-will-make-you-want-to-buy-a-book

Only a year late...

Not too good at this whole blog thing am I?? Nearly 2 years . . . . oops



"So what? All writers are lunatics"- Cornelia Funke.

"The first draft of anything is shit" - Ernest Hemingway.



.... Just some inspirational words of wisdom while writing my dissertation.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, to all the amazing ladies. From you children and adults around the World learn love, friendship, truth, respect, hope and happiness. You teach us all that love is the greatest gift. I hope that yoo are all treated today in a way that shows how truly special yoo are whether yoo are a mother, have been a mother or yoo are soon to hold your little one for the first time! 
I love yoo Mummy xxxxx 
Sending lots of love to Lesley, Rhianwen, Grandma and Nana too on this special day!! xxxx

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."  - Tenneva Jordan


"She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along."  - Margaret Culkin Banning


"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories." - Honoré de Balzac


"That best academy, a mother's knee." - James Russell Lowell


"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." - Abraham Lincoln 



"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert


"A mother understands what a child does not say." - Unknown

My wonderful Nana with another Great- Grandson, my beautiful Godson.

"The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy."  - Sam Levenson

"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild."  - Welsh Proverb 


"When a child is born, so are grandmothers."  - Judith Levy

Me and Mum, September 2011 - my goodbye party

"Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." - Unknown

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone

Me and Grandma in Spain in 2008

"Never have children, only grandchildren."  - Gore Vidal 

"There's no place like home except Grandma's. " - Unknown

"They say genes skip generations.  Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable."  - Joan McIntosh

Me and my Step-mum, Lesley - at my 18th birthday party

"A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go." - Unknown 

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." - Oprah Winfrey

Me and Cousin Kathy, one of my Godmother's

Me and Auntie Kate, my other Godmother.

Marie (Kieran's Mum), Andy, Kieran and My Mummy

My little sister, Rhianwen - a new mum

Lots of love to everyone

xoxoxoxoxox Azzie

Life

I bought this quote on a poster, which I still need to find a frame for. But this is such a good quote! An expression I definitely take to heart!

Not quite as thought provoking as some of my other posts but it made me smile!!

There is a definite theme running through these films!!

Unknown

"Everything will be okay 

in the end.

If it's not okay,

It's not the end."

- Unknown

life

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

- Unknown

Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the World cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."


- Helen Keller

friendship

"Wherever you are it is your friends who make your world. . ."

 -William James

life

"Look to this day for it is life.

In it's brief course lie all the realities and truths of existence, the joy of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty. . . 

Today well lived makes yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day. . ."

-Ancient Sanskrit proverb

Churchill

"Never,

 never,

never

   give up!"

- Winston Churchill

Today

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. . . There is no beginning or end. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present."

- Unknown

Life

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."

- Anonymous

Today

"Behold this day for it is yours to make."

- Black Elk

da Vinci

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo da Vinci

Buddha

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

- Buddha

Emerson

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"

 - Emerson

Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! 

Live the life you've imagined."

- Thoreau

Buddha

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

- Buddha

life

"Everything happens for a reason."

 - American proverb

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thoreau

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder . . ."

- Thoreau

Lincoln

"Whatever you are, 

be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Carol Shields

"Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths. Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, JUST BE." - Carol Shields

dance, love, sing, live

Dance ... as though no-one is watching.
Love ... as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing ... as though no-one can hear you.
Live ... as though heaven is on earth!

One Day

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of that long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day."

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

One Day

"We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton of truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

One Day

"Sometimes you are aware when great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people." 


- James Salter, Burning the days.

shoes

If you can't walk in stiletto's, take a taxi!

Magic

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl

Education

"How children experience education makes a difference to their outcomes." - Professor Pamela Mann, Head of Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University.




www.barnados.org.uk/info_on_resource_a5_leaflet_may051.pdf?debugstate=3

Love

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." - Roald Dahl

Magic

"A little magic can go a long way." - Roald Dahl

Women

“We live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.” – Rosalyn Sussman

Dance

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here let's dance!"

"When life gives you lemons grab a tequlia and salt."

Love

"Love many, trust few. Learn to paddle your own canoe."

Dance

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain."

UNICEF

"The true measure of a nation's standing is how well it attends to it's children - their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued and included in the families and societies into which they were born."


pg 1 - UNICEF (2007) 'Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well being in rich countries' Innocenti Report Card 7. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

Inclusion

"Inclusion is a vision, a road to be travelled, but a road without an ending and a road with all kinds of barriers and obstacles, some of them invisible and some of them in our own hearts and minds." (pg. xi)


Mittler (2000) Working Towards Inclusive Education: Social Contexts. London: David Fulton.

Education

"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams.

ETNI -English Teachers Network (no date) Education - quotes. Available at: http://www.etni.org.il/quotes/education.htm (4/1/2012)

Social exclusion is . . . [definition]

"The unique interplay of a number of factors, whose consequence is the denial of access, to an individual or group, to the opportunity to participate in the social and political life of the community, resulting not only in diminished material and non-material quality of life, but also in tempered life chances, choices and reduced citizenship."

Kenyon, S., Lyons, G. and Rafferty, J. (2002) ‘Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility’, Journal of Transport Mobility, 10(3), pp. 207-219, SciVerse: ScienceDirect [Online] Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692302000121 (Accessed: 12^th December, 2011).

Quotes

I have decided to post on here all the inspirational quotes I come across both on my course and in general! So here goes . . .


"Happiness is a journey, not a destination"