Quotes to live by
So i am reading this book for one of my college classes which'll start in a few weeks. This link brings you to the inside of this entry, where i have a couple questions for anyone in general to answer....Just things that were passing through my head as i was reading it.
"There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need...The truth is you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard... This is how you get respect, by offering something that you have. There are plenty of places to do this. You don't need to have a big talent...Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning... You notice there's nothing in there about salary...If you're trying to show off for people at the top forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone... Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you will be overwhelmed with what comes back."
"He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing...we are all great at small talk..But really listening to someone - without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return - how often do we get this anymore? many visitors ... were not drawn because of the attention they wanted to pay, but because of the attention he paid to them."
"Tuesdays With Morrie" ~ Mitch Albom
It's interesting to think how this book was originally published in 1997, and yet if you step back and take a look at how everyone, in this country at least, goes through with their lives day-to-day, things really haven't changed at all. If anything, people have gotten worse. You've got athletes complaining how 14 million dollars a year isn't enough while there are people scraping to get by each and every day. People who won't ever see that kind of money in their lifetime, even if you combine all the money they earn in their life.
One thing that sickens me each and every time I go to work at Chef's Corner is how much food we throw away. People are so self-centered, maybe that's not the right way to describe it, but that's all I can come up with at the moment. Maybe it's just the restaurant's fault for serving the portions that they do, but maybe not. The first reaction I come up with when I think about comparing how much food is wasted with each person who eats there to all the people who have to survive off of that in a week is shame. Ashamed to even think of it. But that's what I find weird; that's how a lot of people are raised and what most people are used to. Why are we brainwashed, in a sense, that thinking about how bad off some people have it compared to us is such a wrong thing to do? Is it because inside we are all ashamed at how much we just normally take for granted? It's like we know that we should feel ashamed, but we don't have to because that's normal. It's normal to think that we deserve more than certain others. It's normal to think that it's ok for some to have to go through poverty, but when it comes to us, it's not ok. It's just not right, it's too had for us to live that way, because we aren't used to it like they are.
take it as food for thought and let me know what you think!
~Jenn
"There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need...The truth is you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard... This is how you get respect, by offering something that you have. There are plenty of places to do this. You don't need to have a big talent...Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning... You notice there's nothing in there about salary...If you're trying to show off for people at the top forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone... Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you will be overwhelmed with what comes back."
"He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing...we are all great at small talk..But really listening to someone - without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return - how often do we get this anymore? many visitors ... were not drawn because of the attention they wanted to pay, but because of the attention he paid to them."
"Tuesdays With Morrie" ~ Mitch Albom
It's interesting to think how this book was originally published in 1997, and yet if you step back and take a look at how everyone, in this country at least, goes through with their lives day-to-day, things really haven't changed at all. If anything, people have gotten worse. You've got athletes complaining how 14 million dollars a year isn't enough while there are people scraping to get by each and every day. People who won't ever see that kind of money in their lifetime, even if you combine all the money they earn in their life.
One thing that sickens me each and every time I go to work at Chef's Corner is how much food we throw away. People are so self-centered, maybe that's not the right way to describe it, but that's all I can come up with at the moment. Maybe it's just the restaurant's fault for serving the portions that they do, but maybe not. The first reaction I come up with when I think about comparing how much food is wasted with each person who eats there to all the people who have to survive off of that in a week is shame. Ashamed to even think of it. But that's what I find weird; that's how a lot of people are raised and what most people are used to. Why are we brainwashed, in a sense, that thinking about how bad off some people have it compared to us is such a wrong thing to do? Is it because inside we are all ashamed at how much we just normally take for granted? It's like we know that we should feel ashamed, but we don't have to because that's normal. It's normal to think that we deserve more than certain others. It's normal to think that it's ok for some to have to go through poverty, but when it comes to us, it's not ok. It's just not right, it's too had for us to live that way, because we aren't used to it like they are.
take it as food for thought and let me know what you think!
~Jenn