Making the world a better place..

[ItBeThatWay27]

Originally Posted by DreamsLastSoLong

29. Don't be afraid to feel compassion, and don't be afraid to allow someone else to feel that compassion. Let others know you genuinely care.

Great one Christie, I have been doing this lately and people seem shocked that someone actually cares.. but I mean shocked in a good way. I guess a lot of people aren't used to people caring about them. I don't mean this in a conceited or self-centered way but lately I have been feeling really good about myself. I am not used to feeling like this. I guess cause I've been real inspired w/ all the poetry and all but a lot has to do w/ how I am dealing with people and treating them lately. I find myself being sort of a warrior for "the right thing". I defend people when they need it, give people compliments and compassion, and well it's just a feeling I am not used to. I feel really connected which is something I haven't felt much of. It's really liberating.. (sorry to sort of get off topic but it applies to what Christie wrote)

[ItBeThatWay27]

31-"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle"

My wife found that quote somewhere and I don't know whose quote it is but I thought it was fitting for this thread. I like it

[never.alone]

i like that quote

(im a quote freak btw)

it says to me that i should think about how much ive been through and how some people have no idea about it and they may treat me a certain way but i have to keep reminding myself that they dont know any better and vice versa i dont know everyones life story so i really shouldnt judge them in anyway

[ItBeThatWay27]

you are very insightful for your age and that's a compliment. I don't think I was that insightful when I was your age.

[never.alone]

thanks

i know this isnt a quote thread but i just feel like adding some of the quotes i love:

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”- Buddha

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.” - John Steinbeck

ok thats all i'll put for now lol

[strengths.with.faults]

awesome Jess! I freakin like Gary's threads lol

[007]

I like where your heads are at, but also understand, unless you guys make some co-alition or something. THe World Is Not Enough, it cannot be changed, maybe just a corner altered to one's specs.

As Michael Stone put it, "If you fall, no one will catch you. If you don't look out for yourself, no one else will."

It's odd, how people transition their tune, to quote Bateman, "We have to end apartheid, for one. Stop the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism, and world hunger....We need to provide food, and shleter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination, and pormote Civil Rights. While also promoting equal rights for women, and most of all, we need to encompass a turn back to simple, moral tradition, and less materialism."

That's Shakespearean.

Bet you all weren't expecting that liberal side out of this guy.

Jones
"The Lonely Angel"

[007]

I have a heart.

[ItBeThatWay27]

you keep repeating yourself in all of your posts. We've already heard these quotes about falling and no one catching you... blah, btw there's an edit button on the bottom of your post to add things so that way you don't have to always double-post

[never.alone]

yea forizzle....
( i love that word!)

[Eibhlin]

One way to make the world a better place would be to impose harsher punishments on the jack-arses who decide to rape or molest children, leave babies to starve to death on doorsteps, or who will shake their children into brain damage or death.