| LIFE Thought for the Day

If our doctors tell us that we have a terminal illness and can expect to live only another year, or five years, how would we respond? In fact, we confront exactly the same question if we are still healthy and have a life expectancy of fifteen or twenty more years.

- Jimmy Carter
 
Comparison is the thief of joy.
- attributed to Teddy Roosevelt

This is a repeat. I write this quote in my planner/journal at the beginning of each year to remind me that keeping score by someone else's gauge is a fool's errand. I'd forgotten to do it this year until @alabama mike cued me to go look for Demi Moore's acceptance speech. She quoted something similar: "I had a woman say to me just know you will never be enough. But you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick."

So, I watched the opening monologue and Moore's acceptance speech. More than I had planned, but both worthwhile.
 
@TerryP I can't remember the others but I thought you would know but posted it.

"I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative."

- Dolores O'Riordan

Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan dies (2018).​
 
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