“It’s not what happens to you that matters most in life, but how you deal (handle ) with what’s happened to you – it’s one’s ATTITUDE that really counts.”

Craig's Quotes

featured picture from http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com

“It’s not what happens to you that matters most in life, but how you deal (handle ) with what’s happened to you – it’s one’s ATTITUDE that really counts.”

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

A writer’s dream(s)

Picture above (great) by my old friend John (“the world’s third worst photographer”, so he calls himself), but whose photographic talents I definitely  do NOT possess)!

from

www.johnsphotopics.wordpress.com

https://dreammerchantweb.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/dream-merchant-photo-images/

 www.capetownmypictures.wordpress.com

https://capetownphotopictures.wordpress.com/

 www.onetaleoftwocities.wordpress.com

https://shatteredbrokendreams.wordpress.com/

www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com

www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

and www.awritersdreams.wordpress.com

Shared by “the world’s absolutely worst photographer”

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Zanardi an inspirational athlete

and

Source: Zanardi an inspirational athlete

Mike Hailwood helps Clay Regazzoni (Kyalami 1973)

https://inspiringvideo.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/f1-1973-kyalami-hailwood-tries-to-help-regazzoni/

 

from http://www.formulaonewriter.wordpress.com

“Heroes are simply ordinary people, who find themselves in extraordinary situations and rise to the challenge of helping their fellow man… and so one person at a time, help make the world a better place for all.”

from http://www.unsungheroes.wordpress.com

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal.”

― Albert Pine

from http://www.mandelamadiba.wordpress.com

and http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com

“You are as great as the cause you serve, and as young as your dreams.”

 

“You are as great as the cause you serve, and as young as your dreams.”

from

https://middleeastpeacepursuit.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/the-economics-of-peace-in-the-middle-east-from-the-new-middle-east-by-shimon-peres/

and

https://peacepursuit.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/the-economics-of-peace-in-the-middle-east-from-the-new-middle-east-by-shimon-peres/

RIP , Shimon Peres

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”

BooKs by cRaig loCk

Source: “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”

and

https://upliftencourageandinspire.wordpress.com/

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Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog and/or kind thought(s)

Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog and/or  kind thought(s)

(but if you are following me, my close friends say it would be far more entertaining with a video-camera*!)

* By the way, do they still make them in today’s ever-faster changing world..or is it all done with mobile phones?

“total non-techno” c (who doesn’t possess a mobile phone, after a rather eventful’ experience some years back, whilst trying to walk and talk at the same time )

Men…Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em!

Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog/comment and/or kind thought(s)

Hi

CAN’T KEEP UP…BUT THANKS FOR THE “THANX”

I’ve had many many hundreds of thousands (“zillions”) of comments on my various other WordPress blogs at https://craigsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/craigs-list-of-blogs-updated-sept-2011/

in recent years …true!) …a few of my blogs went “balistically viral” a few years back.

Obsessive or WHAT! Am really pleased you are enjoying my writings, as the reason I write is to share. However I am unable to keep up with the comments and was spending entire days just on replies on my various blog pages.

Though I’m rather “driven”, I still get really, really fatigued (there’s a few books there). so sorry can’t reply individually to all you good people scattered around the planet, but DO try to read as many as possible daily (and even moderate a few when I get a “mo”), I got swamped with comments on my various blogs, so have had to close them off on all of my blogs, except for one or two of particular interest to me –

see

www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com

www.traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com

https://livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com/

and

www.livingwithheadbraininjury.wordpress.com

Sorry and hope you can understand.

* “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

~ Franz Kafka

I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks for the thanx”

“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”

– craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)

“Aim at the earth and you may not get off the ground.a

“Aim at the stars and you may reach the moon.”

“Aim at heaven and you’ll have earth thrown in…

and you may even hit the stars.”

– craig (as inspired by the famous quote by CS Lewis – 24th May 2012)

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the wings that carried you there.”

– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts

“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”

– c

“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.”

from http://racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/

and http://www.godandformula1.wordpress.com

“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,

he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,

or Beethoven composed music, or

Shakespeare wrote poetry.

He should sweep streets so well

that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,

here lived a great street sweeper

who did his job well.”

– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

PPS

Instead of trying to reply to each one of you, I’ll just keep on writing

“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”

The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B005GGMAW4

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE

http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books

and http://goo.gl/vTpjk

All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –

MINE!

“When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! “

Don’t worry about the world ending today…

as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand

PPS

“I wish you well on a rainy day

I wish you rainbows to brighten your day

To feel your quiet moments with a special kind of warmth

to remind you that happiness can happen

when you least expect it.

I wish you rainbows to make you laugh and smile

to show you the simple beauty of life

and to give you the magic of dreams come true.

I wish you rainbows

I wish you well.”

– Larry S. Chengges

”Since I can never see your face,

And never shake you by the hand,

I send my soul through time and space

To greet you. You will understand.”

– James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)

Craig’s Books

The Writing Journey

http://www.craiglockbooks.com

An early/first web site done by my American “cyberpal”, Erich  in “the very dark and bleak days” of 1997,

when I had “merely the seed of an idea/ ‘vision’ (+ hope, lots of it) in my little noggin (head).”

“Life is God’s novel; so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds…”

– me (as inspired by the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer)

from  http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

“What(ever) you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German philosopher, poet and playwright

PPS

“All our dreams can come true…if we have the desire (burning), determination, courage, passion, persistence and patience* to pursue them (and it’s often through the very dark places where they may lead)…long enough.”

“All our dreams can come true…if we have the desire (burning ..

from https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/all-our-dreams-can-come-trueif-we-have-the-desire-burning-courage-passion-persistence-and-patience-to-pursue-themlong-enough/

and http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com

PPS

Best wishes from…

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“Only those who’ve been in the deepest valleys of life can ever know what’s it’s like to one day stand on the highest peak.”

BooKs by cRaig loCk

Source: “Only those who’ve been in the deepest valleys of life can ever know what’s it’s like to one day stand on the highest peak.”

“It’s Not the Mountain We Conquer, but Ourselves”

“The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds.”

from

https://beliefhope.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/its-not-the-mountain-we-conquer-but-ourselves/

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Moon Shadow

JOHN'S PIX: Pictures (great) by my old friend John ("Jet")

The moon last night, with a cosmic cloud of photons, Klingons and whateverons….

Picture (great) by my old friend John (“the world’s third worst photographer”, so he calls himself), but whose photographic talents I definitely  do NOT possess)!

from

www.johnsphotopics.wordpress.com

https://dreammerchantweb.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/dream-merchant-photo-images/

 www.capetownmypictures.wordpress.com

https://capetownphotopictures.wordpress.com/

 www.onetaleoftwocities.wordpress.com

https://shatteredbrokendreams.wordpress.com/

www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com

www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

and www.awritersdreams.wordpress.com

Shared by “the world’s absolutely worst photographer”

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“The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds.”

It's not the mountain we conquer, but OURSELVES

picture from

https://climbingmountainsandchasingdreams.wordpress.com

“The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds.”

– craig (as inspired by the words of Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand conquerer of Mount Everest (1919-2008)

from

https://beliefhope.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/its-not-the-mountain-we-conquer-but-ourselves/

and

http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

picture from

https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31

and

https://capetownphotopictures.wordpress.com/

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