WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

people often take the time to complain..but rarely take the time to say “you done good” – take a moment…spread the happy…tell someone when they’ve done a good job today! – WyzWmn

Don’t pity the girl with one true friend. Envy her. Pity the girl with just a thousand acquaintances. – Katie Obenshain

from the Pythorium

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up on the dirt. As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!

And the moral is….
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – anonymous

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. – Don Henley

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. – Hanlon’s Razor

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. – Dennis Wholey

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. – J. K. Rowling

I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. – Henry Ward Peecher

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Krishnamurti