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"You can make some of the people happy some of the time, but you cannot make all of the people happy all of the time"....my take, just stop trying...the only person you can really please is yourself....no matter how good a person you are, no matter how loving and understanding and compassionate you are, negative people will pick out the one tiny thing they can to hark on, and they will beat a dead horse in an attempt to change you.

"Fairy tales really do come true." my take, they do...they just are not ever quite what we imagine, because we are human and we live within limitation and our minds can never quite comprehend the greatest pain or the greatest happiness until that moment occurs and we are in it.


"Be the change you wish to see in the world"...I think he meant this on a much smaller scale than we interpret. Every time I visit this quote (weekly at least) I always think, I SHOULD VOLUNTEER FOR SOMETHING MEANINGFUL [read, I should be at a homeless shelter daily giving out food]. Ultimately, I think we just need to strive to be loving and understanding toward our fellows humans, living creatures, Earth, etc., that is all. If we all took that small step, the world would change exponentially.

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you." My take, don't ask for food. Let's think about this a moment...unconditional love is not abundant in our world. Look around you. Do you have a person or two or 5 who you have a realtionship of unconditional love with? Good. Stop expecting every relationship to be that way. It is not. People expect a tit for tat. So, if you never ask for anything, then you never owe anything. It is that simple. If people wanted to give you something, they would do it of their own volition, generously. If they do not, then you create an atmosphere of indebtedness and tension.

I'm taking liberty with these because I am not looking anything up....so if I have gotten something wrong, consider this my express apology.

You know the whole "dance as if no one is watching thing"? Well, sure. However, someone is going to be watching and laughing. You either have to decide to be a person who cares or not. THAT DECISION IS YOURS, and no one can make it for you and no one can make you feel any way that you do not choose. Reaction is a choice. REACTION.IS.A.CHOICE.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." It is LOADED, because asking God for anything is so overwhelmingly presumptive. I'm not doing lessons in religion today. I believe in God and I believe in the power of prayer. I do not believe God is a man (or woman) who controls our day to day lives. Chew on it. I like that this addresses God and then assumes free will and predestination, because, yes, yes, and yes. Again God is either infinite or not. If you are not sure, look up the definition of infinite.

"You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable." Just because I think we are in a time and a place when we need to remember this one.

It was just a "words of widom" moment. Soon I will have time to download pictures and do a fun post. It has all just been so serious lately. I have a lot of extraneous negativity weighing me down (choice)...so I am (choosing to) live freer of those constraints.