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Wednesday
Feb042009

The true joy in life

Along with 'The Station' story listed below, this quote from the great George Bernard Shaw is one for quiet contemplation whilst pondering.  Read and enjoy, and then step up to the mark and help make wildly inspirational action the norm, with collaboration as the oxygen of progress,

This is the true joy in life...being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature rather than a selfish little clod of grievances and ailments complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy...I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do it for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. Its a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and want to make it burn more brightly before handing it on to future generations.

Never before have I had greater fulfilment than now, working with some of the finest people I've ever met on challenging work that's important now and for tomorrow. Not only are they great to plan, write and deliver with, but as a band of unlikley surfers, cyclists, mountain bikers and explorers, they make fine playmates too.

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