I stated this one first when talking to my dad, and he made a disparaging remark about "tree huggers":
If more of us don't start hugging trees, then there won't be any more trees to not hug. When there are no more trees to not hug, there won't be any more people to not hug the trees.
druidess6308: I stated this one first when talking to my dad, and he made a disparaging remark about "tree huggers":
If more of us don't start hugging trees, then there won't be any more trees to not hug. When there are no more trees to not hug, there won't be any more people to not hug the trees.
It was in the middle of the night, no sleep, and possibly on cold medication.
If God gave man free will, to allow man to do what he wants, then why do we (Humans) feel the need to judge someone, if God didn't judge them, so what makes us better then God to judge someone.
When my son was around 14 years old, he was feeling the peer pressures of that age and feeling that he didn't fit in with a lot of the kids in his school (what he didn't realize at the time is that most adolescents feel this way). I told him that friendships and relationships are much like a jigsaw puzzle....each piece will only truly fit with a few around them, who are in turn going to only fit with a few others, etc. You can try to force a fit, but it just isn't going to work or look right in the end. And I told him that each piece is equally important. Without each piece in place, the puzzle is not complete.
OK, so it may not be an actual quote, but the message apparently got through to him that day, for years later (when he was about 20), he told me that he never forgot that little jigsaw puzzle image and that it meant a lot to him and helped him through those often agonizing teen years.
"You're kidding me! Hell, I'm impressed - I didn't think this beat up old piece of junk would go that fast! Can I have a ticket so my friends will believe it?" (I didn't get the ticket...)
"Truth is, when it's all said and done, I plan on being a long gawddamn ways away from here."
"Hang on, let me re-phrase that - I didn't know I was going to be quoted."
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and a decision I was making that they all thought was wrong.
I'm aware that I am not what some prefer me to be,
but most are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.