“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
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“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
Pooy 
Spell it right, its pooey 
Spell it right, its pooey 
A long one (sorry) but good....
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument.. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it..
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you, really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone, everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
I especially like 10, 19, 25 and 32...
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument.. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it..
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you, really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone, everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
I especially like 10, 19, 25 and 32...
I like 11 and 31...I'm a natural at them...I need to listen to 39 and 43. Seriously.
Sarum
Sarum
Aye, if in doubt, go out. Sounds vacuous but it ain't.
Do it.
Do it.
Pro Aww from laughing at George Bush to a soppyfest 
Aww from laughing at George Bush to a soppyfest
Well, if we're getting too soppy, how about some inscrutable philosophy?
"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
But not necessarily in chronological order."
(Douglas Adams)
"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
But not necessarily in chronological order."
(Douglas Adams)
Gotta love that man...he spoke a lot of sense. (But he's still wrong about 42, it's 34.5 
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Gotta love that man...he spoke a lot of sense.
Yep..He and Terry Pratchett make up the bulk of my philosophy on life...and, yes, i do know how sad that makes me sound...
AWW those are lovely sarum. Number 37 makes me want to do more with little gyps. Maybe i should wake her up and we could take a midnight picnic to do some star spotting 
but prob not.
but prob not.
Graffiti seen soon after 9/11:
"God save us from those who believe in you."
"God save us from those who believe in you."
I saw the most amazing stars in Tiree - a tny tiny Scottish island - recently, Gypsie.
A night of wonder!!! Milky Way an stuff. Shooting stars and satellites everywhere. *wishes was back*
A night of wonder!!! Milky Way an stuff. Shooting stars and satellites everywhere. *wishes was back*
One of my favorites... from a long ago programme of 'Last of the Summer Wine' before they flogged that old horse to death was from Compo, and it was something along the lines of...
'Just when you think there is nothing in the world that will surprise you any more, you find a flint in your welly.'
'Just when you think there is nothing in the world that will surprise you any more, you find a flint in your welly.'
sounds great, i used to see the most amazing shooting stars in turkey. they were every 2mins.
Islay, a great island i used to stay on, no light pollution, wonderful stars
Islay, a great island i used to stay on, no light pollution, wonderful stars
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Beware the little green men.
This is the Real world I take it? Reference:
This is the Real world I take it?
Was a quote i remember from back in the 60's.
Anyway--- serious- There is a prog on TV shortly, something about the incident at Tunguska, or somewhere like that where 800 sq miles of land was levelled by an unknown phenomenon. Somewhere in Russia. Sounds like good TV so will watch it.
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"God save us from those who believe in you."
I am a devout atheist, I heartily approve Reference: Leccy
I am a devout atheist, I heartily approve
I find it beautifully ironic. Reference:
I find it beautifully ironic.
It's something I could really get evangelical about Reference: Leccy
It's something I could really get evangelical about
Do NOT go near the Jebus bloggers!
If It ain't cooked, I ain't eating it- Essex Angel
It's good for you, full of vitamins -Mr Essex
It's good for you, full of vitamins -Mr Essex
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If It ain't cooked, I ain't eating it- Essex Angel It's good for you, full of vitamins -Mr Essex
Holy baby jeeebus so that's what the sig meant.Reference:
Essex Holy baby jeeebus so that's what the sig meant
It's good for your skin! *googles, wonders if she's been lied to for a a decade and half-ish!*
Tightens the wrinkles, like egg whites.
*wonders why her face is more Methuselah than Leslie Ash *
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If It ain't cooked, I ain't eating it- Essex Angel
It's good for you, full of vitamins -Mr Essex
I kinda guess we're not talking about broccoli right? It's good for you, full of vitamins -Mr Essex
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Another one of my favourites
"I love you more than yesterday but less than I will tomorrow"
Me to my son.
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I love you more than yesterday but less than I will tomorrow" Me to my son.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
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Sarum 809 Forum Posts Yesterday at 22:33 (Edited: ) “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think, but the most important thing is, even if we're apart - I'll always be with you.” - Winnie the Pooh. (Yes, honestly...)
Ahhhh, that's beautiful (especially coming from a boy's beloved bear)I love quotes, I've collected too many to have a fave (Wilde for the funnies but true, WH Auden and miserable old Sylvia Plath -amongst many others - for the 'hit the nail' ones).