An 85-year-old woman from Kentucky was interviewed. She was asked what had she learned from life. She answered, “If I had to do it over, if I had my life to live over, I would dare make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would be sillier. I would take fewer things seriously... I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles than imaginary ones. You see, I’m one of those people who lived seriously and sanely day after day, hour after hour. I’ve been one of those persons who never went anywhere without thermometer, a hot water bottle, raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I’d travel lighter."
“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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