{"id":47259,"date":"2023-11-13T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47259"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:29:19","slug":"your-daily-dose-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47259","title":{"rendered":"Your Daily Dose of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That when you&#8217;re in love, it shows.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That just one person saying to me, &#8216;You&#8217;ve made my day!&#8217; makes my day.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That being kind is more important than being right.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That you should never say no to a gift from a child.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That I can always pray for someone when I don&#8217;t have the strength to help him in some other way.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold<br \/>\nand a heart to understand.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That we should be glad God doesn&#8217;t give us<br \/>\neverything we ask for.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That money doesn&#8217;t buy class.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That it&#8217;s those small daily happenings that make<br \/>\nlife so spectacular.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That under everyone&#8217;s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That love, not time, heals all wounds.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile..<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230; That life is tough, but I&#8217;m tougher.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;.. That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;.. That when your newly born grandchild holds your<br \/>\nlittle finger in his little fist, that you&#8217;re hooked for life.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you&#8217;re climbing it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the entries in this list are not the work of any one person \u2014 they&#8217;re statements gathered from dozens of different people (aged 5 to 95), many of which were collected in the 1995 book, Live and Learn and Pass It On, Volume II.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of wisdom in there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. I&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That when you&#8217;re in love, it shows. I&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That just one person saying to me, &#8216;You&#8217;ve made my day!&#8217; makes my day. I&#8217;ve learned&#8230;. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Daily Dose of Wisdom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47260,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259\/revisions\/47260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}