March 2012
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
– Epicurus
voguelivingmagazine:
The dressing room of Jan Murphy’s Brisbane home doubles as an office with a memory wall displaying beloved works by artists Mirka Mora, David Bromley and John Santry among others.
From ‘Hello Handsome’, a story on page 134 of Vogue Living Mar/April 2012, on news stands and Zinio now.
Photograph by Alicia Taylor.
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Does knowing mean nothing to you, unless somebody else knows that you know it?
– Persius, Satires
To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
– Friedrick Nietzsche
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true,...
– Winston Spencer Churchill
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that...
– Albert Einstein
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...
– C.G. Jung
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the...
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
– Cicero