Paula O Sullivan

Back on the Road to Enlightenment

‘The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, which is why I’ve asked all of you to bring sandwiches and a change of clothes’ –B. Kliban I love this quote, it really cracks me up (laughing) I’ve read many variations of this over the years, the first one was a Gary Larson Far Side cartoon, [...]

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Becoming Stronger

by Paula O Sullivan

I was asked a while back, ‘How do we become strong?’ I just love being asked this kind of thing, it throws my mind into a mad swirl of questions! I would consider myself a very strong woman, but I hadn’t ever taken the time to analyse just how I got here! Until now that [...]

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The Painful Truth

by Paula O Sullivan

We’ve all experienced some form of emotional pain in our lives at some stage or another, and as I was considering what to write about on this subject I came across this lovely quote. ‘Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for [...]

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Back on Track

by Paula O Sullivan

It had been snowing on and off periodically for a few days and I awoke one morning to discover that my beloved car was now under some several feet of snow. Faced with the choice of digging or walking, I decided that I was in an adventurous mood! Having run out of basic food supplies, [...]

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Got the Rainy Day Blues?

by Paula O Sullivan

I was standing in a shop looking out the window at the rain, the other day, when a man commented that it was awful when it was raining, as you couldn’t go out anywhere. I was going to ask him if that was so, then how the heck did he get here, like was he [...]

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Are you getting warmer?

by Paula O Sullivan

When I was a little child, I used to play a game with my friends. I don’t recall if we had a name for it, but it went something like this…. Someone would hide an object and as the searcher got further away from finding it, the other person would say’ you’re getting colder , [...]

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Are you the poison or the antidote?

by Paula O Sullivan

I was just thinking “Don’t our words and actions speak so much about us? And don’t the things we say about others really reflect the type of people we are?” I suppose when you become more aware and begin observing your world; you do start noticing this kind of thing more. I know some of [...]

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Licensed to smile

by Paula O Sullivan

I just found this perfect quote to begin my article with… “I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances but by our disposition.” –Martha Washington Disposition means a person’s [...]

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Live to give

by Paula O Sullivan

‘Each man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbour. Then all goes well’ –Ralph Waldo Emerson (quote) Gosh, do we all do that? Maybe not all of us, or maybe all of us at some stage of [...]

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Do you eat the donut hole?

by Paula O Sullivan

‘Don’t miss the donut by looking through the hole’ –Unknown (quote) Is your life like a donut? Are you looking through the hole, focusing on what’s missing and on what’s wrong? Far too many of us have a tendency to do this. We fail to see the donut (the life) we have. We fail to [...]

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