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MESSAGE

Lindsays Grandma — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:14:18 GMT

There comes a time in life,

when you walk away from

all the drama and people

who create it. Surround

yourself with people who

make you laugh, forget the

bad, and focus on the good.

Love the people who treat

you right. Pray for the ones

who don't. Life is too short

to be anything but happy.

falling down is part of life,

getting back up is living.

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KingstonsMom — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:51:56 GMT

Khloe Kardashian posted this on her Instagram....not sure if she was the original writer.

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KingstonsMom — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 10:25:37 GMT

**UPDATE**

Found the original source, Demetri Alexander Salvaggio on Facebook.

Just giving credit where credit is due.

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SandySparkles — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:11:07 GMT

@Lindsays Grandma I just LOVE this feel good message. Its relevant simplicity, made my soul smile.😁 Well done!!!😊

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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Cakers3 — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:36:17 GMT

@KingstonsMom wrote:
**UPDATE**

Found the original source, Demetri Alexander Salvaggio on Facebook.

Just giving credit where credit is due.

@KingstonsMom Jose N. Harris is given the most credit for this quote from Mi Vida - A Story of Faith.

You have to be careful with quotes; people post them on social media and sign their names; not so much to take credit as to just show something they like. Thus Kim Kardashian has posted this but she is not the author.

Often these types of quotes are used over and over again so much that the original author is lost.

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Lindsays Grandma — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 03:49:25 GMT

@KingstonsMom I doubt she was the original writer. I have a number of different quotes in my phone and each one has at least 30 quotes in it. She could very well have the same ones, but thanks for mentioning it.

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Lindsays Grandma — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 03:53:06 GMT

@KingstonsMom wrote:
**UPDATE**

Found the original source, Demetri Alexander Salvaggio on Facebook.

Just giving credit where credit is due.

@KingstonsMom Glad you found the source, however, I can assure you I did not copy it from Facebook. One would have to be a fool to do that and I am no fool.

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hckynut — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:45:39 GMT

@Lindsays Grandma

From reading this I can say that many of the things said here, I was doing at a pretty young age, comparatively speaking. Starting probably being full of Optimism, which is pretty much looking at the good in life in lieu of the bad.

Going through tough times can make you stronger, never think you are always a victim. Live your life for yourself, not the way others think you should live. No matter how many times you get knocked down, dust yourself off, and move forward.

"Man was born to live, not to prepare for life"

hckynut

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Lindsays Grandma — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:57:31 GMT

@hckynut ...I have experienced a number of times in my life that people are not always kind, and things happen that turn your life upside down. From those experiences I found the strength to always pick myself up and move on. I am thankful that my parents taught their two daughters to never allow anyone or anything to get in our way that would knock us down so far that we couldn't get up. I have never been a victim, I am and always will be a survivor.

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Cakers3 — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:15:57 GMT

@Lindsays Grandma wrote:
@KingstonsMom wrote:
**UPDATE**

Found the original source, Demetri Alexander Salvaggio on Facebook.

Just giving credit where credit is due.
@KingstonsMom Glad you found the source, however, I can assure you I did not copy it from Facebook. One would have to be a fool to do that and I am no fool.

@Lindsays Grandma @KingstonsMom He is not the author. He posted this along with other quotes as one of his favorites.

Again, people need to be careful. Quotes are posted as favorites without original authors. Then people assum the poster is the author.

I posted where this quote comes from upthread. I heard this quote in a stress workshop and it was attributed to Jose Harris.

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hckynut — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:07:10 GMT

@Lindsays Grandma wrote:
@hckynut ...I have experienced a number of times in my life that people are not always kind, and things happen that turn your life upside down. From those experiences I found the strength to always pick myself up and move on. I am thankful that my parents taught their two daughters to never allow anyone or anything to get in our way that would knock us down so far that we couldn't get up. I have never been a victim, I am and always will be a survivor.

@Lindsays Grandma

Nothing in any of your posts have I thought differently about how you have lived your life. In that respect, we have much in common. Running my adult hockey league over half a century, meeting hundreds of men from around the world.

Learned a lot about all aspects of life from kind people and many not so nice people. Myself and my 3 older sisters were raised by 1 parent, our mother. She taught us both verbally and more importantly, by example of how she lived her life.

Like you, I have never felt I was a victim, and I was born in a Public Housing Project, which today would be considered to be the very bottom of poverty.

Those projects, in our City and state were Integrated, not Segregated, and kids were kids regardless of their skin or spiritual beliefs. Most my neighbors were Christians, there were 2 Jewish families as neighbors. Myself and my 3 sisters all attended the same Catholic School.

I didn't live the exact life my mom wanted, which was higher education and save for the future. I lived for the day and believed I learned more about life by actually living it, not reading about it in books.

Were she still alive she would be happy with the path of life I chose to live and will continue to live in the same manner. The most important thing to me is first, living for another tomorrow. Everything that comes with that day I view as a blessing.

hckynut

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Lindsays Grandma — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:44:09 GMT

@hckynut From everything in your posts that I have read indicates you lived your life the way you wanted to. I don't see anything wrong with that as long as no one was hurt as a result. You have had health problems that might have stopped you from doing the things you loved but you always fought the good fight and came out on top. I mean, come on, look at you, ice skating at your age!!

I would love to write a book about the doors that closed and the ones that opened. Each time a door opened the story got better. Therefore, I am a firm believer in the the saying, "When one door closes another opens."

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SandySparkles — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:58:16 GMT

@Lindsays Grandma Originally, I was going to share a comment, but I think your posts unwittingly summed up my thoughts brilliantly! Well said!!!😁👍👍

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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Lindsays Grandma — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 06:43:36 GMT

@SandySparkles wrote:
@Lindsays Grandma Originally, I was going to share a comment, but I think your posts unwittingly summed up my thoughts brilliantly! Well said!!!😁👍👍

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

@SandySparkles Okay, now you left me curious as to what your comment was going to be, care to share?

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SandySparkles — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:43:56 GMT

@Lindsays Grandma wrote:
@SandySparkles wrote:
@Lindsays Grandma Originally, I was going to share a comment, but I think your posts unwittingly summed up my thoughts brilliantly! Well said!!!😁👍👍

~~~All we need is LOVE💖
@SandySparkles Okay, now you left me curious as to what your comment was going to be, care to share?

@Lindsays Grandma Certainly.😊 I was merely going to point out, that through self-realization, after having experienced much adversity earlier in my life, am I able to relate to, and admire this message. I am forever grateful for the joy-filled life I have today.🙏👍👍

It was your words in response to another poster, "From those experiences I found the strength to always pick myself up and move on", that resonate with me the most. We are indeed soul sisters.😁

😊 Life really is too short to be anything but HAPPY( as we can be)!❤

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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Lindsays Grandma — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:14:29 GMT

@SandySparkles wrote:

@Lindsays Grandma wrote:
@SandySparkles wrote:
@Lindsays Grandma Originally, I was going to share a comment, but I think your posts unwittingly summed up my thoughts brilliantly! Well said!!!😁👍👍

~~~All we need is LOVE💖
@SandySparkles Okay, now you left me curious as to what your comment was going to be, care to share?
@Lindsays Grandma Certainly.😊 I was merely going to point out, that through self-realization, after having experienced much adversity earlier in my life, am I able to relate to, and admire this message. I am forever grateful for the joy-filled life I have today.🙏👍👍

It was your words in response to another poster, "From those experiences I found the strength to always pick myself up and move on", that resonate with me the most. We are indeed soul sisters.😁

😊 Life really is too short to be anything but HAPPY( as we can be)!❤

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

@SandySparkles ...I was going through some quotes when this caught my eye:
"You must love yourself first to be able to love and receive love from others." I have always believed that we must love ourselves, which some people think is selfish but of course it isn't. If I love myself I will not accept what is bad for me. If you love yourself you will not accept what is bad for you, and on and on.

I do know that once I finally did not allow adversities to stop me from being happy my life changed for the better. It is terribly late so I am going to close for now, more later.