Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Wise Life Quotes


The wisdom behind these quotes is fairly obvious, and yet we never seem to remember to follow the life quotes we know to be wise. I, for one, never let go of my grudges, rarely apologize, and definitely don't love what I've got,  I simply wait for life to change so that I can when really it should be the other way around. Life quotes are there for a reason, to help guide us through the harder times of life, and yet we sit idly by and watch so many moments pass us by because we're too busy holding a grudge to remember those life quotes on our refrigerator magnets, coffee mugs, and posters at home. Life doesn't change unless you make it, you can't win the lottery unless you buy a ticket, you can't fall in love unless you meet new people, you can't get a job unless you fill out an application. I sit at home complaining about how my life sucks, but what do I do? I sit on my couch and watch TV. I don't go online and look for jobs, I don't go out and try to meet new people, I don't even spend time with the people I live with most days. I just watch fictitious people, living their fictitious lives, and wishing my life was as interesting as theirs.  Life quotes are there to remind us to be present in our lives, not the ones made up by people to entertain us. There is a reason all of these people have said such meaningful things, and it's not because they wanted to sound like Gandhi, it's because they knew we would need guidance at some point in our lives, and the gave us that in the form of life quotes, which we just post on our Facebook wall and forget. We ought to be following these life quotes, but instead we just go back to our old habits after we hear them. Maybe we contemplate them for a minute, an hour, maybe even a day, but in a month we will not even remember that life quote that we found in that book we started reading. We know these life quotes are true but we ignore them and they seem to go away, but they don't. Just like ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away, ignoring insights in any form including life quotes does not make the insights go away. Every once in a while, as we drift off to sleep, we'll remember those quotes and wonder why it is they we pushed them to the back of our minds, but before we can make ourselves do anything about it we a re in dreamland.

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