Welcome to Geraldine Bown's Being Book

“To every child – I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.”
– Malala Yousafzai

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
– John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Children begin by loving their parents, as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
– Bruce Barton

“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
– Aung San Suu Kyi

“As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders… and it’s very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.”
– Stacy Keibler

“Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.”
– Madonna Ciccone

“The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.”
– Janet Street-Porter

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
– Socrates

“I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.”
– Rebecca West

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
– Unknown

“Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.”
– Dan Slater

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilisation.”
– Laurie Nedal

“I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.”
– Anna Aquino

“Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.”
– St Bernard

“There is a feel about Galway you can wear around your shoulders like a cloak. It blows in with the mist from the Atlantic and lingers incessantly at every corner. I have never been able to walk the streets of Galway without feeling some unnamed presence accompanying me.”
– Claire Fullerton