Category: “Ideas won’t keep…”

Grudge: the heaviest thing you can carry.

-Anonymous

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

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When you carry a grudge, you give a part of your life-your energy, memory, and enjoyment-to someone who has wronged you. Every time you think of the person or incident, you punish yourself by reliving the experience.

Think of an old hurt that is taking up room in your life and write a farewell letter to it. Tell it about the wonderful things that you are going to give your energy and attention to instead. Give your letter a firm ending.

Games provide rules and create a reassuring artificial order. If nobody can quite figure out how to keep score in real life, everyone knows how to do it in games.

-Marilyn Gardner

… Your life is equipped with a memory function. This should in no way substitute for new experience.

-from a commercial for L.A Gear

Those who have free seats at the play hiss first.

-Chinese proverb

Fashion says, “Me, too,” and style says, “Only me.”

-Geraldine Stultz quoted by Sarah Gold

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If you had an unlimited budget, which would you choose: dressing to be in fashion or dressing to express your own personal style? Why?

If you chose style, describe what your personal style would be like. What would you want your style to say about you?

Change is one form of hope; change is to believe in tomorrow.

-Linda Ellerbee

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Some people thrive on change. To them, something new means adventure and challenge. other people find change difficult. To them, new means uncertainty and the loss of familar things.

Do you welcome change? Or do you try to avoid it? Explain your feelings, using examples from your life. What helps you adjust to change?

Many things are lost for want of asking.

-English proverb

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Some people won’t ask. They’d rather go without than take the chance of being told “no.” But if they had asked, the answer might have been a “yes.”

Sometimes the loss is simple, like a day off or a free pass. Other times, the loss can be heartbreaking.

Write about a real-life or imaginary situation in which a person lost or went without something because he or she didn’t ask for it.

So long as there’s a bit of laugh going, things are all right…

-D. H. Lawrence

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a darn fool about it.

-W. C. Fields

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

–Murphy’s Law, Book Two