"If you argue with a fool you will end up being one." Ahhhh, yeah.
How often have I wanted to respond angrily to something small, to react in the same manner which someone used with me. But there's an increasingly insistent voice inside me that now asks: "What's that to you?" The best revenge is to refuse to fight. What good does it do me to argue with an idiot?
"The quiet companionship of a comforting person is like balm to the soul. These kindred spirits seem to be able to take our hand and walk with us through the difficult places they have already traveled. They keep us from the loneliness that pervades our experiences, waiting for a word that we have passed through safely. And best of all, they never bring it up again but let the past take care of the past. Their eyes are on tomorrow, their hands on the present time so that we never hear empty echoes and are never reminded that we were unhappy. And then, we, in quiet ways, can reach back and take someone else's hand."
What a great condensation of The Twelfth Step from a native American.
Think and talk pleasant things. When pressures are too much, turn around and think and talk on another subject. Most of us are victims of our own emotions. Love can be a mere glance, a brief word, a silent touch.
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