Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.” Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, born on this day in 1667

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.” Louisa May Alcott, born on this day in 1832

“Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine,Under every grief and pine,Runs a joy with silken twine.It is right it should be so,We were made for joy and woe,And when this we rightly know,Through the world we safely go.” William Blake, born on this day in 1757

“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are savedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 27th December”

“Remember the sky that you were born under,know each of the star’s stories.Remember the moon, know who she is.Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is thestrongest point of time. Remember sundownand the giving away to night.Remember your birth, how your mother struggledto give you form and breath. You are evidence ofher life, and herContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 26th November”

“Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the Sun of Love, and Love will shine through you its all-healing joy.” Rumi

“The first story about humankind in the Bible is about people eating something they’re not supposed to. In this season of bounty, as you sit down to feast, your own relationship with food may pose a similar struggle. Are you conscious of what you’re eating? The Eden story, in which we claimed free will asContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 24th November”

“I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.. Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.” Roald Dahl, who died onContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 23rd November”

Monday Prayers by Carla Grosch-Miller, “At every beginning,bless our dreamingand our doing. The day lies before us,full of the mundane and the miraculous,the known and the unknown. Be the breath we take before each step.Be the source from which we draw strength.Be the end toward which we direct our hope. Open our eyes to allContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 21st November”

“All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.” Edwin Powell Hubble, born on this day in 1889