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Words from the Wise

.Dreamer9
05/06/08 1:47 PM GMT
State your knowledge of Wisdom.
(Put your thinking caps on for this one):0

Something you may want to share?= Your course of positive action or wise attitude in a situation. Your good senses put to the test. A situation that gained you insight in a positive way and that you Learned Knowledge of Wisdom. It can be a sentence or a story that you may want to share with the world. Now go for it and have some fun! :)

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Everything grows with love

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.FutureResident
05/06/08 2:37 PM GMT
i.e. Don't eat yellow snow?

Or howzabout...

Don't drag your baggage around with you..
To work or to your friends.
Basically,
Put the lid on your trash can ;)

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h_m_s_x_ _l... like to buy a vowel? ♥
.mxvirgil
05/06/08 3:19 PM GMT
Life is more than the current social paradigm.
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.angelledaemon
05/06/08 8:09 PM GMT
Don't sweat the small stuff.

Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
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Angelle "because reality isn't nearly as fun."
::laurengary
05/07/08 3:14 AM GMT
Learn to pick & choose your battles..... some fights really aren't worth winning & learning that can be a valuable lesson.
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I've got amnesia & deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before ! ......CLICK TO SAVE LIVES ! .......MY GALLERY
&mimi
05/07/08 6:12 AM GMT
You can choose to be right or choose to be happy :=)
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~mimi~
&purmusic
05/09/08 10:05 PM GMT
This one has kind of stayed with me, for whatever reason ... and of all things, it is an 'Oprah'ism'. Here is that pearl of wisdom:

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Made me go ... 'hmmmm ...'
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap." - Robert Fulghum
.Tootles
05/10/08 12:18 AM GMT
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

What is that in context? Sounds very interesting. :-)
You mean like when you split up with someone and look back at all the warning signals that he wasn't who you thought he was?

Or maybe it's supposed to be more positive. :-)
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.Tootles
05/10/08 12:30 AM GMT
This is my most recent piece of internet wisdom:

"Remember da human."
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&animaniactoo
05/10/08 4:49 AM GMT
You cannot change how someone else reacts to you, you can only change how you react to them.
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One man sees things and says "why?" - but I dream things that never were and I say "why not?"
&purmusic
05/10/08 5:07 AM GMT
Welll, I stand corrected ... it was Maya Angelou that had said this and was quoted by Oprah Winfrey.

The meaning? Here is an excerpt from Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address at Wellesley College on May 30, 1997 addressing those very words:

"One of the other great lessons I learned taught to me by my friend and mentor, Maya Angelou and if you can get this, you can save yourself a lot of time. Wendy and I have had many discussions about this, particularly when it comes to men, although she has a very nice one right now. Remember this because this will happen many times in your life:

When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time! That is particularly good when it comes to men situations because when he doesn't call back the first time, when you are mistreated the first time, when you see someone who shows you a lack of integrity or dishonesty the first time, know that that will be followed by many, many, many other times that will at some point in life come back to haunt or hurt you. When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Live your life from truth and you will survive everything, everything, I believe even death. You will survive everything if you can live your life from the point of view of truth. That took me a while to get, pretending to be something I wasn't, wanting to be somebody I couldn't, but understanding deep inside myself when I was willing to listen, that my own truth and only my own truth could set me free."
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap." - Robert Fulghum
.Tootles
05/10/08 1:40 PM GMT
Yes... does make a lot of sense. Sometimes we need to give chances, though, because misunderstandings arise. "Give lots of people lots of chances," said a friend one time. Not sure why that stuck in my mind.
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=Samatar
05/11/08 1:04 PM GMT
"Those who only look back see nothing but their shadows"
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-Everyone is entitled to my opinion- rescope.com.au
.mxvirgil
05/11/08 6:33 PM GMT
One can only give what he or she possesses.
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&purmusic
05/11/08 6:39 PM GMT
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap." - Robert Fulghum
.raquel10
05/12/08 12:03 AM GMT
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"

-Henry Ward Beecher
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Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
.angelledaemon
05/13/08 4:08 AM GMT
Above all, to thine own self be true.
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Angelle "because reality isn't nearly as fun."
.mxvirgil
05/13/08 5:27 AM GMT
Always season your words with grace -- you may have to eat them some day.
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.Dreamer9
05/13/08 7:58 PM GMT
"Life is a Test of mere Multiple Choice."

E~
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Everything grows with love
.gloopical
05/13/08 8:22 PM GMT
"When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass. When I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky." - Henry Matisse

That means a lot to me. I'm not sure about what it'll mean to anyone else.
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"Most artists go to new places you've never been to before and say, "If you stay in the exact position, look at this, and focus on this, this is what you'd see." That's fine, but I prefer artists that go to normal places you've probably been to and say "If you were to go in this exact position, look at this and focus on this, and then sniff thi and let the hallucinations come and go, this is what you'd see.""
.raquel10
05/13/08 10:01 PM GMT
i like that quote... to me it means that I don't have to give in to conformity.
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Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
::danika
05/13/08 10:11 PM GMT
My grandpa was the wisest person I've ever known ... quite funny too. One thing I remember him saying to me all the time is "tomorrows dreams are just a moment away" & then sometimes he was much more straight forward & say "just don't dream about something, do it".

My favorite is when my grandpa asked me, "Do you want to hear a great fish story"?

My reply, "Of course" (I could never resist listening to his stories)

He said, "Then grab your fishing pole & lets go catch a few".

Those were his last words I would ever hear him speak ... 8 years ago.

I did go fishing that day ... even though my grandpa was unable to ... he was there in spirit.

I believe he was telling me over the years to live each & every day to its fullest ... don't let a moment escape you ... and he did just that his entire lifetime.

I know it's personal, but thought I would share it. Also taught me to listen to what others have to say ... good or bad ... someday those words, no matter how simple they are, may have a greater impact on your life.

I found this quote several years ago .... words to live by.

“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.”
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away ~ George Carlin
&purmusic
05/13/08 11:02 PM GMT
Nice. Really ... nice. :o)

*raises properly chilled glass of milk in honor to Sherree's grandpa*

We all need those kinds of people who serve as wonderful guiding lights in our lives.

Glad he authored some lines on your life's script Sherree. It shows. :o)
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap." - Robert Fulghum
.angelledaemon
05/14/08 12:23 AM GMT
If you are going to dream, DREAM BIG!!
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Angelle "because reality isn't nearly as fun."
.Dreamer9
05/15/08 4:07 PM GMT
Being conscious of your unconscious.
(*.*)
E~
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Everything grows with love
.gloopical
05/15/08 5:12 PM GMT
Y'know something I've learnt?

If you want to have a good day, just have a good day.

Ignore stupid things that tick you off. That way they don't build up.

Just be happy about the good things, tell your friends you love them very much and hug everyone at every possible occasion, and just enjoy doing the things you have to do.

Sing while doing everything. Screw anyone who says you can't sing. It's a compliment.
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"Most artists go to new places you've never been to before and say, "If you stay in the exact position, look at this, and focus on this, this is what you'd see." That's fine, but I prefer artists that go to normal places you've probably been to and say "If you were to go in this exact position, look at this and focus on this, and then sniff thi and let the hallucinations come and go, this is what you'd see.""
.angelledaemon
05/15/08 6:46 PM GMT
Be wild and insane....well behaved people never made history. ;)
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Angelle "because reality isn't nearly as fun."

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