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To those toxic in life:

 

“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”

- John Steinbeck

 

Replace “it” with “you.”

 

 

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If you think I'm backing down on being who I am because of somebody else's cruelly myopic discomfort, let me know when you fill this colander with water.

- Me.  I may have been inspired by something else, but if so, I don't recall.

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Please forgive me.  I am not trying to drag the thread down.  But as a thought, this is sitting with me at the moment.  Negativity isn't my aim.  Simply sharing the thought.

 

I think hell is something you carry around with y | Nojoto

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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. 

Marcus Aurelius 

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17 minutes ago, Sol said:

Their happiness isn't your happiness. - My dad

 

Making people happy makes me happy.

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When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?

 

Marcus Aurelius

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"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

 

Seneca

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 “I have lost my smile,
   but I don't worry.
   A dandelion has it.”


― Thich Nhat Hanh

 

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On 2/28/2022 at 7:53 PM, Lenneth said:

 

Making people happy makes me happy.

Same here! Probably should have specified what my dad was trying to say; The things that make you happy aren't always going to be the same as what makes other people happy, and sometimes those people think it'll make you happy too. It doesn't make them bad people, far from it, but sometimes they don't understand that what works for them won't always work for you.

Example: Having kids made my mom happy and gives her a sense of fulfillment in her life. Which is great, I love existing and she's doing a pretty good job as a parent, but having kids won't make me happy. Same with romantic relationships; I don't really want one, my mom loves being in one with my dad. 

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"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
Epictetus
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"To die would be a grand adventure!"

  - Robin Williams as Peter Pan in Hook.

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"Death is the only adventure I have left." Dustin Hoffman as Hook in Hook. (If memory serves me correctly)

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3 minutes ago, Ticket For Epic said:

"Death is the only adventure I have left." Dustin Hoffman as Hook in Hook. (If memory serves me correctly)

That's so meaningful, thank you for posting! 💞

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"I asked to play Ophelia
in McKellen’s Hamlet—
but the timing didn’t work out."

— Patrick Stewart

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3 hours ago, Ticket For Epic said:

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."

You've reminded me of what Gandalf said to Frodo, Ticket. I know Tolkien was talking about war, but really it fits anything that life visits upon us...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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