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posted December 30, 2008 02:16 PM         

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Just to ride on the tail of the New Year Resolution thread. Here are my three favourites:

1. You've got to remember, not everyone thinks like you.

My dad ~ can't remember how that came into the conversation.

2. Never forget where you came from.

My husband ~ in the context of telling me not to take any notice of snobby work comments about my working-class accent.

3. Never invite an African man into a room with a bed in it if you are alone. He will feel obliged to offer his services even if he finds you disgusting ~ so you won't think he isn't a real man. Make sure you have a friend. He might be angry but he will leave you alone.

Kenyan friend giving me a little cultural insight. It got interesting when I explained why a man was staying in my room when I had a fiance (gay friend).

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posted December 30, 2008 08:47 PM         

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"When you get older, the breathing space is smaller and the consequences are bigger."

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posted December 31, 2008 05:29 AM         

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Nobody is having a good a time as you think they are!

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posted December 31, 2008 05:32 AM         

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Don't smile until week 6.

Advice given to teachers at the start of the new year

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posted December 31, 2008 05:38 AM         

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"Never set a precedence."

So I always made sure that when I was new to a job and a co-worker or boss asked me to make coffee that I made the worst coffee ever so they'd never ask me again.

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posted December 31, 2008 08:01 PM         

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them" from my best Scorpio friend

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Sun in Libra
Moon in Cancer
Jupiter in Cancer
Venus in Virgo
Mars in Cancer
Ascendant in Cancer

"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me"

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posted December 31, 2008 08:04 PM         

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"Whatever you do, don't marry a jerk."

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posted December 31, 2008 09:20 PM         

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The only person that you can control is yourself.

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posted January 01, 2009 02:48 PM         

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle;

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly;

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posted January 01, 2009 05:46 PM         

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Quality can't be rushed

(Too bad I don't put it into practice, lol)

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posted January 02, 2009 10:07 AM         

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What gets measured gets managed.

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posted January 02, 2009 11:17 AM         

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Great 'food for thought' blue moon. Maybe I haven't listened well, I could not think of a whole lot of what I would call good advice. Solicited or otherwise. After much pondering, and a grimace about the density of a hard head...My Sous Chef told me after a particularly ugly Spanish inquisition style 'meeting' with the neophyte owners of a restaurant I was chef at. There is no emotion in business. Meaning that I was inappropriately emotional about the confrontation. Emotion should not enter into business.

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posted January 02, 2009 05:05 PM         

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"don't bother"

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posted January 04, 2009 04:42 AM         

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never eat a mealie or mango on a first date lol.

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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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posted January 04, 2009 11:37 PM         

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very, very funny, lol, Scorpionic Web, love that dry wit

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posted January 05, 2009 06:57 PM         

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"3. Never invite an African man into a room with a bed in it if you are alone. He will feel obliged to offer his services even if he finds you disgusting ~ so you won't think he isn't a real man. Make sure you have a friend. He might be angry but he will leave you alone."

That's got to be the weirdest advice I've ever heard. lol. Interesting though!

Best advice I can recall is about writing when I went to see one of my favorite writers, Paul Astor, give a reading. A young author stood up and asked what advice he would give a writer, and Mr. Astor said:

"Writing's like riding a bike down a major street. You'll find a lot of people passing you in fast cars and motorcycles...and here you are on this dinky bike, just pedaling away...don't pay attention to who's passing you by. You're on a bike. Take your time. Look around, enjoy the scenery that these other people passing you by aren't getting to see."

Just kinda changed my life... can be applicable on so many levels too

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posted January 06, 2009 05:18 PM         

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Surely all the compliments I've gotten. They've touched my heart like nothing else.

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posted January 06, 2009 07:37 PM         

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HONOR DEATH

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posted January 06, 2009 11:29 PM         

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1)

"breathe"

2)

"let it be"

3)

"nothing is wrong"

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posted January 08, 2009 10:32 AM         

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4)

"The heart is always right, even when its wrong."

5)

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need."

6)

"All you need is love."

7)

"We are the Light of God"

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posted January 08, 2009 12:30 PM         

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Hey MysticMelody. Can you explain number four?

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posted January 08, 2009 12:44 PM         

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ha, FoL, lol

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posted January 08, 2009 12:49 PM         

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fister, you crap, they didn't teach you that at school? comes after 3 and before 5

back to the topic...

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posted January 08, 2009 01:33 PM         

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appear confident even when you are not

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posted January 08, 2009 10:39 PM         

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Sure, Fist of Legend, I'll try...

It means that if you follow what your heart tells you on the journey of life, it may take you down some difficult and even terrible paths but ultimately those difficulties and lessons are what is needed for your soul's growth, and what will lead you to where you are meant to be.

That's been my experience, though it is sometimes difficult to remember that wisdom in the midst of the "difficult experience"...

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