MacGyver Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Hey guys, just thought this would be a good idea for people to read when they find themselves needing some words of advice. Just post you "Words of Wisdom" regarding what ever you see fit. Please try to stay on topic, i know it prolly wont but try. I think this could really help people cope. Here is an example: I have the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The Courage to change the things I can and the Wisdom to know the difference. I look forward to what others will say.
BatteredByLove Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.– Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American Comedian Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up. – Source Unknown
Sadistic_Life Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 My words of wisdom are as follows: Supposedly you only live once, so do whatever it is that you want to do, as long as it is not going to harm an unwilling participant--"participant" being anyone who is not willing to accept the hurt that might follow as a consequence of your action(s). Don't worry about the insignificant details that will have no real impact in the grand scheme of things. Have fun with life, and don't worry so much!
Apathetic Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 You cannot make someone love you,so stop forcing what is not there & let them go. (I should really follow my own advice) LOL:laugh:
Author MacGyver Posted July 10, 2006 Author Posted July 10, 2006 Everything happens for a reason. If your love for each other is true, dont be affraid because it will one day return to you...
tearful_soul22 Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it LOVE. ~Author Unknown~
Apathetic Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Happiness is enhanced by others; but not depended upon others.
l2hvn Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Author MacGyver Posted July 12, 2006 Author Posted July 12, 2006 -Why love if losing hurts so much? Because we love to know that we are not alone. -The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy relationships. This is my favourite!! -When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
riobikini Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 re: MacGyver: " Hey guys, just thought this would be a good idea for people to read when they find themselves needing some words of advice. Just post you "Words of Wisdom" regarding what ever you see fit. Please try to stay on topic, i know it prolly wont but try. I think this could really help people cope." I don't know if my contributions to this thread are quite in line with the original question, but they might be worth something to someone who happens to run across them. Most of what I rely on now, in regards to love, was learned a long time ago, when I was a very young girl -the basic stuff- the stuff that that I've used as the foundation of knowledge that I've only added to through experiences. And it turned out to be pretty good stuff. There are a few quotes -words of wisdom- (Smile) from several people that have stuck with me through the years, -some from my father, a few from MJ, my grandmother on my mother's side- and a few random others I (miraculously) listened to. At first, you may think they don't have a thing to do with your topic. Try to read with more than just your eyes open. One of the things my father used to say was "If a man don't work, a man don't eat". And, to this day, I still see the truth in that statement, as I look around and see the world starving, or on welfare. Of course, I know there's alot more to be said about all that, but to keep this as much on-topic as I am able, I won't take it any further. It used to make me wonder, though, about what he meant when he made that comment, because, in seeming contradiction of it, he would take groceries to people he barely knew who weren't doing so well, and give money to people who didn't hold a job. (Smile). So I give my dad's statement it's due, and whenever I can find a few hours to spare -I give my time, my money, and my hard work to make a little bit of a difference for those who *can't* work, or just need a helping hand for now. It was because of my dad's statement that made me see the difference between *not working* and *can't work*. Another thing he used to say was " Never mistake kindness for weakness." -and since then, I have experienced circumstances of my own which have called up his voice saying those very words, and I have been thankful to be reminded of them, and the clearer, more compassionate, and empathetic understanding I now have regarding their true meaning. My father was a simple, straightforward, and very wise man. MJ was also very wise and -out of all the people I have ever known- she was the kindest, gentlest, most sincere woman, I believe, that ever drew a breath. She proved -everyday- with her gifts of friendship, words and acts of help and encouragement to others that *anyone* can make a difference in someone else's sad circumstances, and showed a seldom-restrained, uniquely-spirited kind of love that seemed, to me, to know no boundaries when in action, nor ever become exhausted. MJ, weighing a hundred pounds soaking wet, nearly eighty years old, and peeling apples on her front porch, once said, " If you can't give yourself, -then nothing else you have is good, either". (I had come for a quick visit and had brought her a gift, but after hearing that, I sat right down beside her and spent the whole afternoon helping her peel that whole damn bushel of knotty orchard apples.) (Smile) MJ was a piece of work, made her own rules, and created her *own* kind of 'cool'. These are examples of a couple of the people who showed me how to view love, be loved, and give love. They didn't spout quotes from daylight til dark, nor go around preaching to masses about how to live, -but they continually *showed* what they believed by how they lived, and how they reached out to connect with others. And in my book, that's not a bad habit to have, at all. I believe that love is one of the single most important things to us all, as human beings, because it acts in a similar way as a sculptor chiseling magnificent art out of a chunk of stone or marble: it finds who we are inside and causes us to emerge, -sometimes painfully. I can't imagine any pain I have ever been through because of love, that wasn't worth what I became out of it. (Smile) I don't know what else I can add to this thread, because all the sophisticated quotes I have in memory have disappeared just now. At the moment, even Ghandi's softly-spoken words could not hold my attention; Goethe was a really wise man, but I can't remember a thing he ever said; and Emerson may as well have been illiterate. All I can remember, right now, are the things I have been taught and know is true: that love is *essential* (we simply can't grow without it); it's unavoidable (if you breathe, then you'll come in contact with it); and although it's always wonderful to be on the recieving end of it, and we would most likely give our right arm to be showered with it everday in all the ways we've imagined or dreamed about -it's still just as absolutely *phenomenal* to be on the giving end, because the truth is, -that's where most of us are going to be found most of the time. Take care. -Rio
Guest Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 Don't spend your life in the shadow of your mistakes.
Chinook Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 "Life can only be lived forwards, even if it only makes sense looking back" Sir Roger Bannister (first sub four minute mile runner) c 1954.
superconductor Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving probably isn't the best sport for you. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain Beware of those who say, "Live for today!", because they probably have no savings account. "Everything happens for a reason," is the bent logic of the fatalist. Life is chaos. We assign reasons based on our own desires. More harm has been done to relationships in the mythical vision of finding "true love" and "the one" than all the world's infidelities combined.
Chinook Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 More harm has been done to relationships in the mythical vision of finding "true love" and "the one" than all the world's infidelities combined. Ha! I like that. So true. There is only one true love... the love for yourself.
Tsiehta Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ouch, my ex has this on her myspace page
Sisty Posted July 16, 2006 Posted July 16, 2006 "Take a lesson from the grass. No matter how many times its cut or trampled on, it rises again and continues. So get back up, my friend, get back up and rise again. ""There are two eternities that can break you down. Yesterday and tomorrow. One is gone and the other doesn't exits....SO LIVE TODAY. "No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry." "Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you."
Author MacGyver Posted July 21, 2006 Author Posted July 21, 2006 "Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met." "The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before." "A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself trying to fix it." "A failing love is like desperately hanging on to something precious; not wanting to give up, but your hands feel the pain. And, when you finally let go, you're free from any pain, but your hands are empty." "Letting go of someone dear to you is hard, but holding on to someone who doesn't even feel the same is much harder. Giving up doesn't mean you are weak! It only means that you are strong enough to let go!" "One day you'll love me, the way I loved you. One day you'll think of me the way I thought of you. One day you'll cry for me, the way I cried for you. One day you'll want me, but I won't want you." All the best to those who are having a hard time with a breakup.
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