Words of Wisdom

May 21, 2009

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Can any­one guess who said this? Please com­ment and take a shot at it:

The para­dox of our time in his­tory is that we have taller build­ings
but shorter tem­pers, wider Free­ways , but nar­rower view­points. We
spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have big­ger
houses and smaller fam­i­lies, more con­ve­niences, but less time. We have
more degrees but less sense, more knowl­edge, but less judg­ment, more
experts, yet more prob­lems, more med­i­cine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too reck­lessly, laugh too
lit­tle, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too
tired, read too lit­tle, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have mul­ti­plied our pos­ses­sions, but reduced our val­ues. We talk
too much, love too sel­dom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a liv­ing, but not a life. We’ve added years
to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and
back, but have trou­ble cross­ing the street to meet a new neigh­bor. We
con­quered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things,
but not bet­ter things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but pol­luted the soul. We’ve con­quered the
atom, but not our prej­u­dice. We write more, but learn less. We plan
more, but accom­plish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We
build more com­put­ers to hold more infor­ma­tion, to pro­duce more copies
than ever, but we com­mu­ni­cate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow diges­tion, big men and
small char­ac­ter, steep prof­its and shal­low rela­tion­ships. These are
the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but bro­ken
homes. These are days of quick trips, dis­pos­able dia­pers, throw­away
moral­ity, one night stands, over­weight bod­ies, and pills that do
every­thing from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is
much in the show­room win­dow and noth­ing in the stock­room. A time when
tech­nol­ogy can bring this let­ter to you, and a time when you can
choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…

Remem­ber; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not
going to be around forever.

Remem­ber, say a kind word to some­one who looks up to you in awe,
because that lit­tle per­son soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remem­ber, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is
the only trea­sure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a
cent.

Remem­ber, to say, ’ I love you ’ to your part­ner and your loved ones,
but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it
comes from deep inside of you.

Remem­ber to hold hands and cher­ish the moment for some­day that per­son
will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the
pre­cious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not mea­sured by the num­ber of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away.

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One Response to “Words of Wisdom”

  1. David Thomas on September 15th, 2009 3:07 pm

    The sen­ti­ment recalls George Car­lin, but the lan­guage lacks his sense of irony. I don’t recall read­ing this before, so I can’t dig it out of my memory.

    I think it’s prob­a­bly a female, and recent enough to ref­er­ence com­put­ers and email. I’m going with Whoopi Gold­berg. Then again I’ll bluff all-in with A9.

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