A pearl of wisdom from Eleanor Roosevelt.

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

One of my favourite quotes but I gotta admit, I find myself too many times failing to refrain from discussing or ranting about people I dislike. It is an illness. A mental illness. In fact, a few weeks ago I promised my boyfriend that I would stop getting angry and instead, channel my energy into work and sharing the little I know with people who read this blog as well as the toughest one; sending positive thoughts to those people I dislike.

He’s a wise one, that one. It worked and I did become a whole lot calmer. Of course, being me, I had to fall off the wagon and now I have to start all over again. Cheers to more positive thoughts. Life is too short to be constantly angry and pissed off about OTHER people.

8 thoughts on “A pearl of wisdom from Eleanor Roosevelt.”

  1. My bf has taught me that I always have two options:

    1. I can choose to be pissed off and angry, let it get to me and ruin my day.
    2. I can rise above and tell myself that although I have no control over what other people do, I do have control over how I react.

    So basically it’s determining if something is within your circle of influence or not. We can’t help people who want to behave in a certain way, but we can disassociate ourselves from them and at least be happy in our own bubble, right?

    *HUG* I have to say your house is shaping up really well. Am very happy for you. You must be pleased to have created something from scratch. That’s a real achievement, Kim!

  2. Eh isit me, or are the guys better than us? *hides in shame* My other half also liddat. When I am in a rage, he can ohhhh so calmly say nice things to calm me down, and like Fieran’s bf, tells me that only *I* can control how I react. When I have totally calmed down, he will quote me words of wisdom from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits. He’s been persuading me to read it, but nah ah, Im not ready to convert yet LOLOL.

  3. So meaningful~ I like that quote! @whimsicaljottings i think it’s because gals tend to get more emotional at times, we are more sensitive, it’s good in a way too~ The expression of emotions help us channel out the inner pressure or stuff, so you see female having longer lifespan than male. Haha, that’s what my biology teacher told us. =)

  4. whimsicaljottings: im starting to think so too. i think men are much better at handling relationships haha. he’s been persuading me to read Dale Carnegie also -_- I thought only women are into self help books!!!

    fieran: do it, babe. lemme know if it helps hehe

    wendy: yeah it’s funny considering women are more regularly angry than men, but still have longer lifespan heh

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