What is your favorite wise saying???
By nadine1373
@nadine1373 (244)
Jamaica
20 responses
@letonegrant (10)
• United States
18 Sep 06
the same things that makes you laugh, the same things that makes you cry
@noorasie (686)
• Pakistan
25 Aug 06
here is some thing I want to share with you.
A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 2 inch diameter.
He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed.
He asked his students again if the jar was full? They agreed that yes, it was.
The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your
life.
The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your
health, your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were
lost, you would be nearly destroyed.
The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller
scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, your house, your
car.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff.
If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room
for the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy
and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for
the things that are truly most important.
Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life.
Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing
There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner
party and fix the disposal."
Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter.
Set your priorities:
The rest is just pebbles and sand
@lisamantz (141)
• United States
20 Aug 06
I'm gonna beat the tar and nicotine outta ya!
(lovely isn't it)
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
15 Aug 06
No good deed goes unpunished.
Not sure if it is wise, but it does tend to ring true.
@Victoria7 (1240)
• Spain
15 Aug 06
Do unto others as you would have done to yourself (ie - treat people how you´d like to be treated yourself).
If everyone on the planet respected each other, we´d be a hell of a lot better off in every sense.