I first started writing these things down in July 2011.
1. If you gotta tellsomenody how you are...then you're not really that way - you just WISH you were. If you're really that way, no one has to be told.
2. To hate is to care. The way not NOT care is to neither love nor hate but to simply consider something or someone as of absolutely no consequence or influence.
3. No matter what your excuse is for nit being there, the real story is priority. Your priorities speak volumes about who you are.
4. You'll never convince anyone with words, only actions
5. People who get mad for not being thanked were doing it for the wrong reasons in the first place.
6. Best way to destroy something is from the inside out.
7. Being mean Is not the same as being tough or firm.
8. One of lifes hardest lessons is learning to accept and appreciate your talents with grace AND learning to accept that others may be more or less talentedthn you. Amdto be gracious about it in either direction.
9. Most people never take the time to see something from the other side. Seeing more than one point of view doesn't mean you agree with it. Just makes you wise.
10. If you're always preaching something then the one you're trying to convince is yourself.
11. Putting someone else down or talking about them is always with the intent to make a person feel better about their ownselves. Or feel more justified about their own way of being.
12. Discrimination is alive and well and apparently something humans will never get past. wish I knew the answer to this one.
13. No one is better than anybody else, no matter how desperately they want to believe they are.
14. People usually will not take the time to understand how a person got the way they are, they simply write them off. "You're not like me so you'll have to leave"
15. If you surround yourself with people who are only like yourself, you will never grow as a person. If you don't fraternize with people because of this, that, the other, you will never receive anything and will never be more than you are. And you will miss out on learning OHSO much.
16. Some people pretend to know what they don't know. Never be that person,
17. If your feelings are ever hurt, it's usually your own fault because somewhere along the way you incorrectly assumed something. Back it up and rethink it. And don't let it happen again
18. To hate someone is to give them power over you.
19. Yelling at a kid destroys raport and takes away any effectiveness you might have otherwise been able to accomplish. And it shows weakness and loss of control within yourself
20. The number one thing all humans of any age want is to NOT be ridiculed, embarrassed, left out, cast aside, or made to feel unworthy in some way. If you make them feel acknowledged, important, worthy, and included as a necessary part of something then 99% of your interactions will be positiv and productive. And really you should treat people as worthy because it's the truth.
21. Nothing heals the mind like hard work. Particularly physical labor, or some kind if work that deprives you of sustained comfort
22. What goes around really does come around.
23. People who say things like "kids today are just awful, i fear for the future!" are telling you that they do not personally know many, if any, kids today and that they have no idea anything about the current generation of youngsters NOR the future for that matter. It's always fun to think that ones own generation was a better bunch than others. But most of us have selective memories, not to mention selective opinions.
24. Family gatherings are far too complicated.
25. You can not orchestrate a change in something without first accepting it's current reality.
26. There is nothing worthwhile that you don't have time for. If you find it a priority then you will make time for it.
27. Never allow someone to paralyze you and especially don't paralyze yourself
28. Always allow people around you to be who they are. For hell on earth is having to be someone you are not.
29. People who cause you physical pain do not love you. No matter what they say. No ifs ands or buts. Under no circumstances.
30. Four Fables you should always keep in mind: the little red hen, the little engine that could, the crow and the pitcher, the lion and the mouse
31. Never let your crazy show
32. In all things if you forget YOURSELF then you will never be forgotten. ACT without effort, TEACH by quiet example, accept things as they come, CREATE without possessing, nourish without demanding, accomplish without taking credit - (This I got from Sam Stacy)
33. Recognize jealousy the moment it hits you and toss it aside. No matter how you try to conceal it, everyone else around you sees it plain as day. It damages you and your effectiveness in anything you're trying to accomplish
34. Who you are shouts so loudly in my ear, that I can not hear what you are saying - Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor
36. Everyone always seems to know a better way to do what you're doing than you do and they love to tell people all about it when you're not around. This is particularly true with people who have never actually DONE the thing you are doing.
37. A person who challenges your authority or your knowledge but then backs away when you offer your rebuttal without anger, was only looking for attention or trying to assert some sort of "worthiness" of their own. When it doesn't piss you off, they become aware of how foolish they look. And they then try to make up for it by back peddling. If you respond in anger, you have joined their game and they continue on with sheer delight.
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