Favorite quotes

So true. I really like this one.

 

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"We are all born innocent, we are a blank sheet that adults and others fill in during the first years of our lives. The values we and lessons we have been taught by the age of 7 stay with us for life. I was brought up to believe that helping others was a very good thing and standing up for the underdog was normal. Nowadays we live in a me me me world. Kindness is treated as weakness and those who are conscientious are treated as mugs. The concept of society and old-fashioned values have been thrown away in favour of dog eat dog..." - paulp, stourbridge, France

 

I really like this.

 

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. -Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)

 

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Every word...

 

*whew. picks self up off of floor* Good stuff!

 

So, so true. Always operated on this philosophy, despite pressure from others (women actually), which is why I ignore it, and thus the last line rings true. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and I love it that way.

 

Yes ma'am. The last line definitely rings true. It's not up to another woman to understand my style, I'm actually quite ok with people not falling in line with my way of thinking or being. The people who are meant to get me, do. That's good enough for me

 

"Until we have have seen someone darkness,we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is."
:MARIANNE WILLIAMSON