My Simple Quotes to Live By – Week of May 4, 2014

May 6, 2014 by Diana G. Cunningham 1 Comment

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“IF THEY SERVE NO OTHER PURPOSE, UNKIND PEOPLE SHOW YOU HOW NOT TO BE.”  ~ Joyce Fields

(excerpted from “My Simple Quotes to Live By” – available at http://www.amazon.com [available on Kindle, too!] and http://www.GoodShortBooks.com)

All of us know some people who say and/or do mean, cruel things to other people. And some of these unkind people are in our own families. The things they say and do really shock and shame us. It’s as if they have no internal barometer to tell them that what they are saying or doing is mean, cruel, or unkind. Or maybe they don’t care. Or maybe they are hurting inside, so they hurt others.  Hurt people hurt people.

But these kinds of people really do serve a purpose. They show us what not to say or do to others. We can empathize with the targets of their cruelty.

So, we really should silently

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