Samuel Johnson: Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
In today’s wordsHonest praise is only a debt we owe, but flattery is a gift.
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- Life comes in Words. Words become sentences. Our sentences become our messages. Our messages become our experiences. Our experiences become our life Lessons.
- The words we speak ultimately lead to crisis or opportunity, poverty or prosperity, chaos or order.
- Life comes in Words . . . Words become Sentences . . . Sentences become Experiences . . . Experiences become Life Lessons. . . . Just because you have gone through a plethora of life experiences does not qualify you to be “Experienced.” If you do not learn from your Experiences . . . You will create a culture of Crisis. . . . Crisis in any area of our lives is a second opportunity to learn a Life Lesson . . . If you do not learn from your “crisis experiences” in life . . . You will be “sentenced” to a life of Chaos. The choice is yours . . . uniquely yours . . . Crisis or Opportunity . . . Chaos or Order. So in the end, the Words we choose to define our lives become Life Sentences that Sentence our lives . . . from Crisis to Crisis or Opportunity to Opportunity. . . . Where Chaos is the norm . . . or with Order we build Form.
- Never allow negative words of the past to negate your positive future.
- Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.