It's amazing what people take for granted.

People believe they'll just wake up in the morning.

They believe they'll be alive for another hour or the whole day.

They believe by next week the person will have this or do that.

They believe they'll have good health if they follow so and so.

Its truly amazing how people do not ponder that everything can be either taken away or changed in an instant.

I should really stop taking everything for granted. Believe that each day is really a gift and a chance to do something worthwhile.

It really puts everything into perspective.

I apologized to someone yesterday.

No biggie, right?

Yet... I felt embarrassed doing so. Not in the sense that it hurt my ego. More like... I actually felt bad.

It was awkward.

But I felt good in the end.

I guess that might be called "apologizing from the heart."

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

"Hell is the place for people who get what they want -- and what they want is a life apart from God." --C.S. Lewis

Even in a pile of manure, a flower will grow.

Events are less important than our response to them.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. (Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986)

Speak softly. If you really want to be heard, lower your voice. (Terri Levine)

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. (Nancy Astor)

The person who says he trusts no one should include himself.

When confronted with a Goliath-sized problem, which way do you respond:
"He's too big to hit" or like David, "He's to big to miss"?

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln)

Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do.

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