Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
• He, who laughs last, thinks slowest.
• A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
• Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
• Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
• I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
• When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
• Seen it all, done it all. Can't remember most of it.
• Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
• I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
• He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically challenged.
• She's always late. In fact, her ancestors arrived on the "June flower."
• You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you.
• I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
• 1Honk if you love peace and quiet.
• Pardon my driving, I'm reloading.
• Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
• Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
• It is hard to understand how a cemetery can raise its burial costs and blame it on the high cost of living.
• The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
• It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
• Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world population.
• If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
• The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
• Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
• The shin bone is a device for finding furniture.
• A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
• It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
• Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
• I wish the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.
• I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
• When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Dealing with powerful emotions can be challenging, especially when we are going through chaotic, sad, or cruel experiences in our lives. Often, it can seem like we have only two options for dealing with our feelings so they don't become too overwhelming. We may let our feelings out in an immediate and visceral way, or we may bottle them up by suppressing our emotions inside our bodies. Most people make the second choice, repressing their feelings in an attempt to deny them. The truth is that there are many positive ways to deal with emotions, and experiencing your negative feelings doesn't have to constitute a negative experience. Denying your feelings is not only unhealthy for the mind and the body, but it may also rob you of valuable information you could be learning about yourself and your life. Suppressing your emotions can even impede your short-term memory. Acknowledging your feelings can help you better understand them and help you recover naturally from change, stress, and grief.

If you find that facing your feelings head on is proving too difficult during times of emotional distress, you may want to explore alternative ways of expressing them. Otherwise, the emotions you deny could morph into unconscious anger or self-hatred. Expressing your thoughts to friends or family can be helpful. If you don't feel ready to share them, try giving them words by writing down what you are feeling. Give whatever you are feeling simple words like "livid" or "angry" or "excited". You can also funnel your feelings into a creative outlet, physical exercise, or chores. Even just accepting and speaking your feelings out loud to yourself can be a healing release. In releasing intense emotions, it is most beneficial to acknowledge the feelings, allow yourself to feel them, and let the feelings go. Those who are willing to experience and release their feelings without judgment also find that their lives become less stressful. Breathing deeply, going for a long walk, or doing a constructive task can help you respond to your feelings in a healthy way.

While burying negative or uncomfortable feelings can numb the pain, it also may inevitably dull your ability to experience your more positive and pleasurable feelings. You may find yourself afraid to open up in the future for fear of getting hurt. The feelings we deny aren't limited to anger and sadness. Suppressing our happiness or excitement can be just as unhealthy. In learning how to express your intense emotions in a healthy way, you are giving yourself the freedom to fully experience the more joyful emotions that come with being alive.

Each of us has been blessed with unique qualities. No one else has lived through precisely the same circumstances, possesses exactly the same qualities, or thinks just the same thoughts. We love, appreciate, and hold dear vastly different things. Because of this, it is nearly impossible to justly compare one-self to others and yet so many people stake their happiness on how they fare when measured against a neighbor, a coworker, a sibling, or Hollywood star. It is easy to think that if you had her eyes, his house, her job, or his money, that you'd be truly happy. Your value as a person has little to do with what you look like or what you possess and comparing yourself to someone else denies your own wonderful gifts and talents. Everyone has worth, but the source of that worth is individual. Learning to stop comparing yourself to others begins with accepting your worth, because your own acceptance is the most important.

Regularly assessing your worth in terms of other people's gifts, be they talent, money, looks, or material wealth, can lead to dissatisfaction, even when you're on top of your game. It's important to remember that you are you and will always be you, not someone else. Your individuality is something to take pride in. When you get the urge to compare yourself to someone else, meditate on the fact that you are lovable, capable, and special the way you are. Instead of focusing on traits you don't possess, and others do, or vice versa, concentrate on what you yourself have. You may be a great painter, very funny, or physically fit. Or you may be exceptionally organized, a capable parent, or profoundly patient. Usually, when we compare ourselves to others, we come out feeling devalued. In noting the positive differences both in yourself and the other party, you appreciate and foster distinctiveness.

The gifts which you have been given can be used for the benefit of everyone you come into contact with. Realizing and embracing such a concept enables you to focus on bringing out the best in yourself, so that you can celebrate your own achievements as well as those of others.

Dealing With Difficult People
We encounter a wide variety of people throughout our lives. Many of them touch us in some positive way. Occasionally, however, we encounter those individuals who, for whatever reason, can be difficult to deal with. Perhaps this person is a colleague or close friend that you feel is deliberately being obtuse, inviting in trouble, or doing foolish things that you find annoying. Sometimes, it may be possible to appease or avoid those people short term. Dealing with them in the long term, however, can be exhausting. The behavior of difficult people can even make you feel like losing your temper, but keep your cool. Staying calm is the first step, especially when you are ready to confront them.

Avoiding a difficult person can improve impossible and not in your best interest, especially if you live or work together. Likewise, attempts to steer clear of them can become a source of stress and anxiety when they are a part of your social circle. When this is the case, it is best to kindly address the problem. Try not to let their actions or mood affect you. You also may want to try expressing your feelings directly. Tell the person how their actions make you feel, and encourage them toward a more positive course of action. Speak assertively, but respectfully, and don't portray yourself as a victim. Another approach for dealing with a difficult individual is to gain a deeper understanding of who that person is. Ask them why they do or say certain things. If you disagree with their motives, question them further so you can try and discover the root of their behavior. In doing so, you may be able to gently shift their perceptions, or at least help them understand your point of view.

You may want to think about what you want to say to a difficult person before you actually talk to them. If you can, avoid being judgmental or defensive, and try to approach the conversation objectively. If the person is open to the idea, try coming to an agreement. If approaching those fails, let it go and move on. There is no reason to let a difficult person or situations have power over your state of being. Remember that a lot can be accomplished when you take the time to listen and offer up alternative perspectives.

Heed these words.
The wise man learns from the folly of others; the foolish man is doomed to repeat it.
Truth is often counterintuitive. Yet truth is simple when the soul is quieted and the noises of intentions are relinquished for the solitude of the now.
It has been written that we need reminding more than we need to be informed. This is absolute if not counterintuitive truth.
Reminders, at first glance, appear a waste of our precious few moments. If after all we are to seize these moments and extract from them all they offer, why delve into the world of repetition?
Say "I love you" once to a person you adore. Then say it a thousand times over a thousand days. Tell the world which will grant you the greatest destiny.
The future you create begins in the now with a decision to repeat with the intention to excel; to rein-act until our dreams become our reality, all the while enjoying the present moments for what they are.
They are the very substance of reality. They are gifts to which a man can invest his spirit and his soul and create a legacy. And they are the building blocks of all things permanent. Without the now the future is without possibility. Without grandeur. Without awe.
We must not cease to prepare for the future; rather, we must engage in every moment with full anticipation for the splendor within the milliseconds and hope that they will unite to form an even more spectacular tomorrow.
We cannot skip these moments. We cannot glide over, fast-forward, or desire an end to what is manifest in our life in this exact space and time. For within our hands is the only time we have as well as the only hope for the destiny we desire.
What must follow is a simple yet monumentally challenging task. When faced with pain our natural inclination is to desire cessation; to move past rather than through. When presented with moments of lack, our instinct is to project ahead to moments of abundance.
This is a necessary step. We must see and feel what we desire in order to manifest it. However, we cannot do this at the expense of the once and present now.
To live life within truth, within the boundaries of the present, we must embrace it all. The wisdom the past grants us. The possibilities and intentions of the future. Both are solely dependent upon the total acceptance of the now.
You must embrace today, this minute, with the adoration of a lover long separated from the object of her affection and reunited for but a moment.
Cling tight. Let the blood rush from your fingers until they turn the purest of white. Hold these moments as the treasure of kings.
Then invest them. Plant them like seeds in the fertile ground of hope, intention and action.
Your tomorrows are the product of the seeds of the present. To see crops without appreciation of the seeds that wrought them is to miss the power of the now and the intention of creation itself.
Your mother is the now. The present moment, awakened by decision, is the womb which brings forth your future.
Honor this.
Greatness must no longer be defined as what one has been able to collect. True greatness is gratitude; appreciation for the exact and present now. Greatness is the skill of extracting everything of value from the moments now at hand. Destiny is created from the wise investment of these moments, and never at the sake of the moments themselves.
One's greatest destiny does not sacrifice moments for the potential of future moments. Genius recognizes that such a pattern would but repeat itself, and any future "now" would be glossed over in hope of a greater tomorrow.
Genius is awake. Present. Alive.
Aware that happiness is both present and capable of increase; but present nonetheless.
All things we desire are present within the process of decision. We decide what is and what is not. We decide our definitions of happy, sad, wealth, poverty, giving, and sacrifice. We alone determine our role. Victim or teacher; both, or neither.
It requires little effort to determine what we lack. It takes an awakening of the genius within to fully realize what we possess. It takes inspired action to use these possessions and manifest our greatest destiny.
Lack is the dissonant echo of false perception. In truth we have all we require in the once and present now. We can ask nothing more than the fulfillment of that which we already possess. To expand upon the existing, and to lend it in quantity to those around us.
Fulfillment is the product of intention, which is the product of decision. Decision brings clarity. All greatness is the product of decisions. All lack is the natural result of the inability to decide.
Decide.
Decide to embrace your moments in full. Elements of lack are a trivial issue. What you possess should be your focus. Focus on this and the emotional power it can manifest and all future moments will attract in kind. Focus on lack and all future moments will be tainted with a bitter flavor.
To do something great does not require courage. To decide to do it demands our greatest fortitude. The moment of decision is the most courageous of all. It is the apex of our decisions that asks us to be the most fearless.
Decision is the ultimate expression of the now.
One cannot decide in the future. All decision is an expression of the moment; the realization that we are awake and capable within the gift of the now. The inspired action that propels us into our future on the wheels of moments fully realized.
We cannot attract happiness if we see only misery in the now.
We cannot attract wealth if we are but paupers in the now.
We cannot attract health if we are only broken in the now.
We cannot receive love if we cannot see love in the now.
Yet we can infinitely expand upon every attribute we possess if we but recognize each as present; each as whole in the one and only now.
Energy can only go in one direction. It is too precious to waste. Use it wisely, and with intention, decision and choice.
Deciding to focus on a lack of happiness is to spend energy in the direction of misery. Spend it instead in the realization of where happiness exists in the now. Let this fill your mind and you will manifest happiness in greater abundance with each moment that awaits you.
Let the wealth and abundance you have in this exact and singular space in time create appreciation, gratitude and awe.
Let the health you do possess expand and attract even more of the same.
Let the love you give and receive be fully known in the now.
This is the secret of true kings; enlightened teachers and beacons of possibility who have graced our existence.
Energy coalesces. Energy collects more of the same unto itself.
We create only what we possess. We manifest more of what we currently realize, embrace and appreciate.
There are no exceptions.
All of this begins in the greatest of moments: the one you currently embody.
From this moment all moments are forged. All abundance is created. All love is given and received.
The antithesis of this is a life lived on autopilot. A life lived in expectation of some thing that never comes. A life glossed over in favor of a future that never manifests itself.
A life never lived at all.
We have the ability to create such grief and loss. We have within each of us the ability to decide not to live. To be great...tomorrow. To love more...later. To decide...someday.
The definition of death is not the cessation of life. It is the relinquishing of it.
It is the decision not to live it at all.
Decide.
Decide to embrace the splendor of the now.
Decide to see greatness in the moment.
Decide to love beyond your limits.
Decide to give from the pool of abundance that all can access.
Decide to receive with joy.
Decide to grasp the wonder of the unknown.
Decide to live a life that attracts your true and greatest destiny.