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People are unreasonable, illogical, and
If you do good, people will accuse you of
If you are successful, you win false friends
The good you do today will be forgotten
tomorrow
Honesty and frankness make you
vulnerable
What you spent years building may be destroyed
People really need help but may attack you
Give the world the best you have and youŽll get |
I got this GIF from a really nice page by a new friend of mine in Okinawa, Terry. Visit his page - it's wonderful!
This is a "parable" that I read way back in my high school days. I am writing it from memory, and I don't remember the source or the author.... but it is something which has stayed with me over the years. I hope you enjoy it also....
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Up ahead, he saw an old Mexican man. As he walked and watched, he saw the old man bend down time and time again, pick up a starfish and toss it back into the sea. When he finally came upon the man, he said to him "Why are you doing that? There are thousands of these starfish stranded on the beach.... you can't possibly make a difference." The old man gingerly stepped among the stranded starfish, bent down, picked one up and tossed it back into the sea. He looked at the tourist, and said, "Made a difference to that one." |
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty,
than the person who has nothing to eat...
"Peace is
not something you wish for; it's something you make, something
you do, something you are, and something you give away."
-Robert Fulghum
"Touch
the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains,
her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in
her solitary places." -Henry Beston