Second part of two installments taken from a Christmas gift booklet titled "Live and Learn and Pass It On - Volume 2" by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.:
I've learned.....
....you shouldn't judge people too quickly.
Sometimes they have good reason for the way they act.
(age 22)
....if you pray for your enemies,
you will stop hating them.
(age 74)
....I like to plant my neighbors' favorite flowers in my flower boxes
so that they can see and enjoy them too.
(age 50)
....that my grown children remember and treasure
the things we did
rather than the things we bought them.
(age 65)
......all people have both good and bad traits.
The secret to a happy marriage is to focus on
my spouse's good traits.
(age 60)
....what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us.
What we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
(age 89)
....when you are really stressed out,
the cure is to put two miniature marshmallows
up you nose and try to snort them out.
(age 11)
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