Resources

Resources is a list gathered from around the site and categorised to to inspire, assure, assist and encourage you and help you find what you need when you need it!

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1 – ‘Life is a challenge – meet it; Life is a dream – realize it; Life is a game – play it; Life is love – enjoy it.’ ~ Sai Baba
2 – ‘The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.‘ ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

SELF :

(health, growth, knowledge, hobbies, social)

health

S2 – ‘The first wealth is health.’ ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
S7 – ‘Positive or negative energy is exchanged like a fair trade, the more you give, the more you receive.’ ~ Master Jin Kwon
S8 – ‘A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.’ ~ Lao Tzu

growth

knowledge

S4 – ‘Knowledge is Power.’ ~ Sir Francis Bacon
Website domain (www) buying
Website domain hosting
Wordpress Template

hobbies

‘learn to paint’ image artist
S5 – ‘Today is life-the only life you are sure of.  Make the most of today.  Get interested in something.  Develop a hobby.  Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.  Live today with gusto.’ ~ Dale Carnegie

social

S6 – ‘One third of fathers in Sydney and Melbourne spend more time commuting than they do with their kids.’ Blackburn, R (2007).  Green is Good.  Sydney: Harper  Collins Publishers.

EARTH :

(habitat, waste, consumerism, ecology, community)

E2 – ‘Every year in Australian cities there are more deaths caused by air pollution than car accidents.’ ~ The Age, 2 March 2004.
E5 – ‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.’ ~ Anita Roddick, Business as Usual, Thorsons, USA, 2001.

habitat

E6 – ‘Australians spend more money to power home audio products when in standby than when actually in use.’ ~ Energy Star Website (www.energystar.gov.au)

waste

E1 – Sustainability Victoria, (2002). Choosing a heating system (www.sustainablility.vic.gov.au).

consumerism

E7 – ‘Only 3c from a regular $3 coffee goes to the coffee farmer who grew the beans.’ Blackburn, R (2007).  Green is Good.  Sydney: Harper  Collins Publishers.

ecology

E2 – ‘Air pollution bigger killer than road accidents’~ The Age, 2 March 2004.

community

E5 – ‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.’ ~ Anita Roddick, Business as Usual, Thorsons, USA, 2001.
E8 – ‘We have not inherited the earth from our parents, but borrowed it from our children’ ~ Antonie de Saint-Exupery

WANDERINGS :

(inspiring adventures, general, local, australia & new zealand, international)

W3 –   ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.’ ~ Mark Twain

inspiring adventures

W4 - ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’ ~ Mark Twain
Things to Give or Go Do

general travel

W5 - ‘Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.’ ~ Anatole France

local

Things to Give or Go Do
W2 – ‘Green and Gold Malaria’ By Rupert McCall

australia & new zealand

Things to Give or Go Do
W1 – ‘My Country’ By Dorothea McKellar

international

W6 – ‘The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.’ ~ St. Augustine

SUPPORT :

(children, humanity, environment, animals)

SU4 – ‘Volunteers are the backbone of many parts of our community…volunteers are happier than non-volunteers and have more energy and a greater sense of control over their lives.’ ~ Moodie, R (2008). Recipes for a Great Life. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books.

children

SU1 – ‘92% of children in care are below the average reading level at age seven; 75% of these children do not complete schooling; 82% of Australian prisoners have below grade 4 level of functional literacy.’ ~ The Pyjama Foundation

humanity

SU2 - ‘A billion people struggle to live each day on less than the cost of a bottle of water.’ Singer, Peter (2010).  The Life You Can Save.  Sydney: The Text Publishing Company.

environment

SU3 – ‘Only when the last tree has died, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.’ ~ Cree Native American saying.

animals

SU5 - ’I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.  They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal.  There you go.  I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.’  ~ Ellen DeGeneres

REFERENCES

Books

R1 – ‘Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”‘ ~ Helen Exley