Life Lessons

‎"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your 
reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden

Original Post by catwalker:

Life isn't fair. That's a life lesson that used to piss me off greatly. It still kind of sticks in my craw when I see unfairness.

Right, not fair. I don't really know what the sensible implication is in terms of how one goes about or feels things. Optimism v resignation depends on odds of success in any given endeavour. We are mostly irrational, & confused about odds, especially in a culture of dreaming.

Hey..Hey...

 Mother's day is this Sunday..

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers" 

Rudyard Kipling or a Jewish proverb...

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."  Robert Frost

Sorry guys,, but that is funny!!

Original Post by joecool123:

I was taught by my Dad that it doesn't cost you a dime to be nice. I'm glad to say that I've lived by that rule. I have a soft heart when comes to children, Senior citizens and people less fortunant. Whenever I see an older person by themselves,I make it a point to ease my way around to start a conversation with them. To give them my undivided attention.Try to brag about something about them.To make them feel like the most important person in the world.Say something to make them laugh.Making sure to leave them with a smile on their face.If I see children, especially the ones that are less fortunant than other spoiled ones. Oh how my heart goes out to them.Heaven only knows what they face at home. I love to kid around with them,and bring a smile to their innocent faces.Asking the parent if I can buy them a peice of candy or something.Anything to bring joy in their hearts. Someone that I know is in need ,I send them money by someone else,Telling them not to let the person know where it came from. I do not write this to pin roses on myself.But trusting it will let others know, it doesn't cost you a dime to be nice.

Wait...what candy costs less than a dime?  I don't know...no offense...but I've tried driving my van around offering kids candy and it turns out, that's "frowned upon".

You should talk to cajun...he buys unfortunate looking women entire tanks of gas...so he's definitely got you beat.

“Ah, but I was so much older then

I’m younger than that now”

― Bob Dylan

One of my favorites..

In vino veritas.. 

 just an old saying...

 and I am a very truthful person.......urrrp  'scuse me!!

Original Post by amwick:

One of my favorites..

In vino veritas.. 

 just an old saying...

 and I am a very truthful person.......urrrp  'scuse me!!

Sometimes.. too much truth from the grape.......

• And there's a danger in loving somebody too much
• And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
• There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
• Cause baby sometimes love just ain't enough

Why can't singers actually "sing" anymore?  Now it's all just funky haired chicks dancing around yelling.

An entire song that's just chock full of lessons...Its got to come from the Heart..

Susanna Clark/Richard Leigh)

 My daddy told me when I was a young girl

 A lesson he learned, it was a long time ago

 If you want to have someone to hold onto

 You're gonna have to learn to let go
 
You got to sing like you don't need the money
 
Love like you'll never get hurt
 
You got to dance like nobody's watchin'
 
It's gotta come from the heart
 
If you want it to work
 
Now here is the one thing I keep forgettin'
 
When everything is falling apart
 
In life as in love, you know I need to remember
 
There's such a thing as trying too hard
 

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love. 

1 Corinthians 13:13

*points to gold star on forehead*

Here my own true life lesson, from today AAMOF.. "you can't shovel dirt underwater"...

Please don't ask how I came to this remarkable understanding..

Original Post by joecool123:

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love. 

1 Corinthians 13:13

No greater love than Moms'.  Unless you consider chocolate..

“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”

 Chico Xavier

“I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...” 
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights

You are where you are in life because of what you believe and what you have acted on.    

Our thoughts and actions control our lives and can be altered to change our lives.

James Redfield

“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.” 

Paulo Coelho

"Do not spoon feed your dog mashed cauliflower while seated on a brown sofa."

"If a task is once begun,

Never stop until its done.

Be thy labor great or small,

Do it well or not at all."     

  I thought this was from B. Franklin... now I am not sure..

An Englishmen thinks seated;

a Frenchmen standing;

an American pacing,

an Irishman,

afterwards.

Austin O'Malley

      ~Frank Outlaw~

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