Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Wisdom from Maya Angelou

After the epistles of the last four days, I thought today's writing would be short and sweet. And so, here's a lovely quote from the venerable Maya Angelou:

"I have learnt that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." A wonderful quote for sure, but I'd like to add, that since 'charity begins at home', start by treating yourself well, and making yourself feel good, and as your cup overflows it'll fall on those around you :-)! Because what we do not have, we are incapable of giving.

Before logging off, my heartfelt thanks to those of you who wrote in with their comments. What I loved is that people are happy to have a reminder of things they already know. These ideas, specially on the theme of gratitude were obviously not invented by me - at an innate level we all know these principles, but for one reason or another we choose to forget them.

Ok - where's that gratitude journal :-)?

Kiki ;-)

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