TruthOrator's Blog

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. --Stephen Chbosky, The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. --Laura Ingalls The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. --Truman Capote Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar. --Jenny O'Connell That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any ...

A lie is like a snowball, it starts of small and then grows and grows until a point were it gets so big it falls apart and then the truth is discovered. I always try to be honest as my memory is none too good and you need one hell of a good memory to be a good liar. “The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.” “Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.” --Thomas Carlyle “We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”. --Tad Williams “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” --Winston Churchill “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.” --~Winston Churchill “It is not without good reason...

The markets generally are unpredictable, so that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.” – George Soros “Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows.” – Jim Rogers “Everyone has the power to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth grade math, you can do it.” – Peter Lynch “Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years.” – Jim Rogers “I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock and there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.” – Peter Lynch “Get inside information from the president and you will lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all your money.” – Jim Rogers “I have found that when the market’s going down an...

1. People who want to be with you will find a way. Seek, but don’t chase. 2. Don’t allow abuse or disrespect. You are valuable and deserve respect. 3. Spend time with happiness givers not happiness suckers. 4. Feel the fear and do it anyway. 5. Own your truth and stay out of denial. 6. Be present and stay present. Awareness is key. 7. Your needs have value; don’t ignore them. 8. Achieving dreams requires action. Take steps now. 9. Stop trying to be anything but you. 10. You are not your past. Don’t go there; let it go. 11. Forgive yourself. 12. Mistakes are not bad; they teach us valuable lessons. 13. Doing something is better than doing nothing. 14. Trying has a higher probability of resulting in success than not trying at all or quitting. 15. Be grateful. You have received many gifts. 16. Be responsible; only you control your actions. 17. You are stronger than you think. 18. You always have a choice in your response and attitude. Choose wisely. 19....

1. Marriage doesn’t complete you. Contrary to the common phrase of finding“your other half” a healthy marriage needs to consists of two whole people who come together. 2. You won’t always feel attracted to your partner. Even if we know this intellectually, when lack of attraction hits in marriage most people panic. We’re a profoundly image-based culture and we’re taught through mainstream media that if you’re not wildly attracted to your partner, you’re with the wrong person. That simply is not reality. We see our partners at their best and their worst, its completely normal for attraction to fluctuate. 3. You won’t always like your partner. That’s simply the way it is when you spend that much time with one human being. We allow for this when it comes to friendships and family, but with partners, we absorb a fantasy that we’re supposed to like everything about each other all the time. 4. The head over heels in love stage doesn’t last forever. There will come a time in you...

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love. --Richelle Mead When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. --Randy Pausch If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly. --Kathleen Tessaro One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends. --Charlie Huston The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd...

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO HEAR THIS TODAY Hey you, Stop breaking your own heart by trying to make a relationship work that clearly isn’t meant to work. You can’t force someone to care about you. You can’t force someone to be loyal. You can’t force someone to be the person you need them to be. I’ll be real with you, sometimes the person you want most is the person you’re best without. You have got to understand some things are meant to happen, but just not meant to be. Some things are meant to come in your life, just not meant to stay. Don’t lose yourself by trying to fix what's meant to stay broken. You can’t get the relationship you need from someone who’s not ready to give it you. And I know it’s hard when your heart has labeled that person as someone you could spend forever with, but you just have to accept that they’re not that person anymore. And you might not understand WHY NOW, but I promise you your future will always bring understanding of why things didn’t work out. TRUST M...

As much as I hate to admit it, I have made my children cry. It’s happened a handful of times over the past decade. It breaks my heart to see any of my children hurting, even more so when I’m the cause. Back when I was in college I swore I would never do that, but, as you know, life just doesn’t always work out the way you think it should, or will. Mind you, there are times when my children are crying because they screwed up and needed to be punished. Their tears were warranted. But other times, I lost my temper or was distracted, or became too critical over something they were excited about. It’s a big responsibility to carry their tiny, fragile hearts in your hands. I’m learning that every day I’m a parent. I remember driving along, several years ago, with my wife and my three youngest children. It was a spring day, the sun was high in the sky, it was warmer than usual, and we were headed to a graduation open house. For whatever reason, my wife and I were having a disagreement...

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.’ — Aristotle ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.’ — Bible, Psalms 8:2 ‘Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ — Proverbs, 22:6 ‘Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult’s capacities.’ — Charles Pierre Baudelaire ‘If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.’ — Rachel Carson ‘No matter how old you get, if you keep the desire to be create, you are keeping the man-child alive.’ — John Cassavetes ‘Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.’ — Clarence Darrow ‘Our gr...

It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life:  YOU. Your life will improve only when you take small chances, and the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be honest with yourself. Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.  It could be so much worse. It is not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you.  Count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. Look for something positive about this moment.  Even if you have to look a little harder than usual, it still exists. When you smile about the life you live, you end up living a life worth smiling about. Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness.  You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything. Happiness comes more easily when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else’s approval. Be nice to people on your way up because...

They don’t teach you how to run your brain. They don’t teach you how to make your life work. They spend too much time testing your IQ and not enough helping you develop your EQ.  “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. --David O. McKay God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others. -Shannon L. Alde Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering...

Over the years, I’ve tried many, many different approaches to my own finances. I’ve read countless books, done countless calculations, and tried countless frugal tactics. Again and again, I’ve found myself coming back to a set of core ideas that always work for me. Some of them are pretty commonplace, like spending less than you earn, but others? Some of them are a bit unusual. Today, I thought I’d share eight of the more unusual ideas I’ve discovered during my experiments with personal finance over the past decade or so. These are ideas that have really hit home for me. They make finances make sense to me as part of my life. I’m sharing them because they might make sense to you, too. I want to stress before we dig in that these aren’t hard and fast financial rules. Each one of them is more than enough to start a great discussion about money and the role it has in our lives. If these ideas spur you to have those discussions, then it’s a great thing. It means you’re thinking abo...

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great. --James C. Collins f you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. - Brian Tracy In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision. --Onyi Anyado It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it r...

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window. The Father asked his Son, “What is this?” The Son replied “It is a crow”. After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, “What is this?” The Son said “Father, I have just now told you “It’s a crow”. After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?” At this time some expression of irritation was felt in the Son’s tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. “It’s a crow, a crow”.A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, “What is this?” This time the Son shouted at his Father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times ‘IT IS A CROW’. Are you not able to understand this?” A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening...

Dear Bashorun, The decision to marry is as important as life itself bacause It is a decision that will shapes who we become in subsequent years after the wedding day. As a male, it is very important for you to choose your mate with an open heart, the one you hope to build a future with. For the sake of your parents, please be very careful in choosing your wife. They, your parents and family, loved you before she came along and It is very important to make your prospective wife understand that she is not getting married to you alone, but also to your family because she can never seperate you from family who have been clothing and showering you with love right from the womb. And please, my dear friend if she doesn't love you like your mother do please don't marry her because nothing can be compare to a mother's love. Above all, there is a place of God in making this life changing decision because it is a decision that will determine how far you will go in life and if yo...

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. --John Green The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. --Eleanor Roosevelt A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. --Johann Wolfgang I can only note that the past is beautiful beca...

You are in your late 20s and early 30s and almost all your friends are married; including that ugly, short and fat Jane! Yet you think you are a good wife material, but you are still single and getting really worried. Well, maybe guys are not looking your way because you are guilty of a number of these offenses: You are too haughty. You are the “independent” type that acts as if you don’t give a damn about guys. Your oversized ego has beclouded your reason for so long to make you think you don’t need men and you can do well alone all by yourself. Typically, you will quickly size up the guy and bring him down with intimidating looks and sarcastic responses. Well, I suggest you marry yourself. You are looking for Mr. Perfect. You want a well-built, neat, romantic, hardworking, honest, God-fearing, faithful, dark, tall and handsome gentleman from a good background who has a good job, drive a good car and loves you unconditionally. I’m afraid that perfect guy you read about in a romanti...

My dear daughter, I have been thinking about you a lot lately, and this evening, there is nothing else I would rather do than talk to you in the old tree house. But since you are not here right now, I’ve decided to leave you this note, lest I forget the things I want to discuss with you. Your life is too precious to me, so I cannot take any chances with you. I know you. I know you will read this someday. These are perilous times. As much as it lies within your power, be at peace with everyone but do not strive to please everyone. No matter how hard you try, you will fail trying to please everyone. The more you please a person, the more you will displease another. One thing works for me; I try to please my God and myself, whoever else is satisfied or dissatisfied along the line is inconsequential. This is a key to being yourself and being happy at it. Respect people but do not worship anyone. Just as you are not superior to anyone, you are not inferior to anyone as well. Don’t let...