Light-Bulb Moments of 2023

Because I read so much – not only a huge number of books annually, but also magazines, social media, other blogger’s posts and what appears on my default home page – I read a lot of words. Every so often, as I’m reading along, there will be a sentence or a statement that resonates with me on a deeper level. I started to jot them down this year, so I would have them at my fingertips to serve as reminders. I decided to type up a running list so I didn’t misplace scraps of paper.

As I read over them recently, at the beginning of the month, I wondered if there would be one or more of them from which others might glean a deeper level. So, I’m sharing them here with you. I could only credit a few of them, and if you find something that makes a light-bulb go on in your brain, please use it to your full advantage!

• Why do we fear the truth? Because we fear that the truth we seek might not be one that we like.
• I can’t always control what cards fate deals, but I can choose how I play them.
• The hardest truth to learn in life is that not everyone is able to love to the depth that you do.
• Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create (credit to Kristian, a fellow blogger).
• The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is (credit to Jim Carey from a commencement speech at MIA, 2014)
• Your life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change.
• I do not get to choose to likes me. That choice is the other person’s right, and I need to accept that someone may choose to like me even when I feel unlikeable (me, your blogger).
• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor (Desmond Tutu).
• Don’t let your fear of failing override your confidence of succeeding.
• When you come to the edge of all you know and you are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, trusting in the universe is knowing that one of two things will happen: one, there will be something solid to stand on, or two, you will be taught to fly.
• The only thing necessary for triumph of evil is for good man to do nothing (Edmund Burke).

I hope that some of you will find your own light-bulb moment (or two) from reading this post. Feel free to share any or all of them in ways you feel appropriate (you fancy power point folks!). I’m going to print this out and attach it with masking tape to several surfaces around my home to force me to read them, memorize them, and develop a habit of allowing them to travel through my conscious thought stream on a regular basis.