Rabbi
Sidney Greenberg used to tell the story of a town hall meeting where the discussion
centered on the use of a new electric chair for the condemned. One man stood up and shouted, “Hanging was
good enough for my father. It’s good
enough for me!”
From birth we move and grow. What was good enough for daddy requires
personal analysis. It may be good enough for us. Or not.
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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