“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley
"Grooming should be done in moderation" - Frank Vincent
“One thing with me, the nice part, I went through it. Now they say I’m immune. I feel so powerful. I’ll walk into that audience, I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and everybody. I’ll just give you a big, fat kiss. No, but there is something — I won’t have to be locked up in my basement. I wouldn’t allow that to happen anyway.” - Donald Trump
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
'The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life' - Richard Bach
"If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated." - Paul F. Davis
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.― Alan Moore - Writer
Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football ― Albert Camus
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. - Harry Browne
“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.” ― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep - E. Joseph Cossman, Author.
“If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.” ― Richie Norton, Entrepreneur
Journalists have linked this online podcasting boom to the ubiquity of smartphones, time spent in transit, and online music services. Others attribute it to the brain-stimulating and addictive effects of audio learning, or the multitasking potential of listening. The beauty is in the overlap. - Jeff Desjardins, Editor-in-Chief of Visual Capitalist
"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." - Hannah Arendt, American political philosopher.
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained." - Vladimir Nabokov
“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
"Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that." - Tom Holland
"I'm Familiar With The Fact That You Are Going To Ignore This Particular Problem Until It Swims Up And Bites You In The Ass!" - Chief Brody
“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow." - Martin Freeman
“Greater eaters of meat are in general more cruel and ferocious than other men.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.” ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
"There's some whores in this house" - Cardi B
“By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart” ― Ben Mitchell
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” - President Donald Trump
“Social Media is about sociology and psychology more than technology.” ― Brian Solis, principal of FutureWorks
“when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns” - Charles Bukowski, poet and novelist
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Professor and Poet
“I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.” – Yuri Gagarin, first man in space.
Any child interested in football at some point during their adolescence spent hours wrapped in a duvet, mouse in hand, staring at a computer screen, watching flashing text and absorbing statistics in the vain hope that they might guide their players to championship glory.
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
"The way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.” - Charlotte Eriksson
"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart." - Jonathan Swift.
Masculinity is a set of attributes, behaviours, and roles associated with boys and men. A simple definition for something so very complicated. As a man how should you behave? How must you to fit in? And what if you do not or cannot?
There's no one defining moment in a young man's life when he 'comes of age'. Becoming a man is made up of a number of life defining moments that you're not even aware of until well after the fact. That said almost every man, if he is straight, remembers his first girlfriend. It's an exciting, confusing and wonderful time, full of traps and hilarity.
For lots of people pondering why we are here, and how we became conscious of ourselves is the greatest of life's mysteries. Some explain it by the existence of a creator, some say it was a natural evolution, but achieving a collective understanding of conscious existence will most likely always elude us.
Over the last ten years of so mental health has come into the forefront of social consciousness. We know that suffering some depression, anxiety or other challenge can be as damaging as a tangible issue with the body. It's also much more prevalent than people assume, and anyone can be susceptible.
Great Britain is a nation of drinkers. No one does it quite like us Brits. As you get older, usually in your 30s or so, you go from being proud of how much you can put away in a single night to thinking about the damage it's doing to your body. Getting to that point isn't easy, and not everyone gets there.
There comes a point - when you're about 15 or 16 - where your parents stop just giving you money. You have to find your own way in the world and start making your own cheddar, bringing in your own bacon. The result is often hilarious and beautiful in forming what you become as adults.
Being a human being is tricky enough. Being a fully grown man and feeling as though you can't display emotion for fear of showing weakness is a mind-f*ck in itself. We talk about how often we show the most obvious symptom of empathy and, for us, as two fully-fledged adult males, why we feel the need to shed a tear.
School is an interesting time for us all. You're in a situation where you're trying to build a foundation for the future, but the reality is that you're trying to work out why your body is changing, why the people you fancy don't like you, and why your place in the pecking order is decided by whether you can fight or not.
15 Minutes (With Flav and Windy) There are 15 minutes on the clock and a chosen subject. Flav and Windy discuss that subject until the timer sounds. Wherever they are at in the conversation at that point, it ends. Sometimes it's just getting good. Sorry about that.