The majority of men in Australia travel through life afraid to show their feelings and rarely
talk about their inner thoughts. As a result they develop an image or a mask to hide
behind. And in most cases they are happy hiding their entire lives. When you see a man,
all you see is what they let you see. The greatest way to live with honour and integrity in
this life is to be what we pretend to be. If you don’t, those enemies, depression,
unhappiness and uncertainty, will be waiting for you. So drop the mask and own up to
your feelings of inadequacy and deep fears.
• It’s called life and it’s brutal.
• It’s not how good you are; it’s how good you want to
be.
• At home. An empty, sad, loveless Saturday night. A
meat pie and three glasses of red took care of me.
(Peter Temple)
• His handshake was half empty.
• If you want to be worshipped go to India and moo.
• Arrogance is a dead-set lack of humility. (Craig
Bellamy)
• A man wrapped in himself is a very small bundle.
• Guilt is a treacherous motivator.
• Perhaps he did not want to be happy. He had little talent for it that was certain.
• Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return. (W H Auden)
• My soul was mortgaged a long time ago.
• Do you know what it is like to come home at night, to a woman who’ll give you a little
love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you are in the wrong house. (G
Burns)
• If I am to be free, then I have to be me.
• A great man is usually a bad man. (Lord Acton)
• I’m sick of excuses being made for angry, vulnerable, unhinged, threatening,
uncertain, wounded men and their masculinity. Like it’s someone else’s fault.
• The most important thing you can ever be taught: JUST LISTEN.
• The male motto: Now this is going to require a subtle blend of psychology and
extreme violence.
• To shame a man is to kill him. (Nietzsche)
• In spite of my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage.
• Australian boys rush to grow up and when they reach eighteen they stay there
forever.
• I don’t tell many people but I failed blocks at pre-school.
• A mind is like a parachute. It must be open to work.
• When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. (Dalai Lama)
• Can’t lead unless you can follow. Can’t give orders unless you can take them.
• Your pain is your own. No man has the right to tell you what to do with it.
• The top five values. Integrity. Wisdom. Calmness. Humour. Empathy.
• We’re all troubled; it’s finding out what it is that’s troubling us. (Hugo Weaving)
• Obstacles and Challenges are your life.
• The bigger a man’s head gets the easier it is to fill his shoes.
• The worst in men is common place. The best in men is a far rarer thing.
• We work at making a self for most of a lifetime, only to find that the self we’ve
created is inseparable from the struggle (Sallis)
• Australia is a nation of winners but God help the losers for they are many. And now
we look ....away.
• 58,000 U.S. soldiers died in the Vietnam War. There is a memorial for them.In the
same period, 54,000 women were killed in the U.S.A by their husbands or boyfriends.
There is no memorial for them.
• Deep in the night, I saw images of people loved. Saw their smiles, heard our
uncontrolled laughter and felt the touches, the kisses, the hugs. All gone. Utterly,
irretrievably gone. (Peter Temple )
• Nobody cares. A whole city of nobody cares. A whole state. A whole country maybe.
(Dennis Lehane)
• It takes fifty years to learn that Being is the important thing. Most never learn it.
Being. Not being someone. Not being somewhere. Just Being. (Elmore Leonard)
A few of us attempt to be humorous at our final
SOMETIMES WE CRY WITH EVERYTHING EXCEPT TEARS. IN THE END THAT’S ALL THERE IS: LOVE AND ITS DUTY, SORROW AND ITS TRUTH. IN THE END
THAT’S ALL WE HAVE – TO HOLD ON TIGHT UNTIL THE DAWN.
SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO REMAIN SANE IS TO LOVE LIKE CRAZY.
John Wilson, March 2017
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