Life lived from the heart

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. Melody Beattie

Our greatest stories, those which leave the most impact, come from our hearts. And what comes from our hearts are stories that have laughter, sorrow, healing, pain, and everything in between. The best stories have a little bit of all, even the pain. For our pain can be someone else's healing. When we share from our hearts we are telling a story of grace, of redemption, and of hope. Just like the stories from the hearts of others can be a soothing balm, a life lesson, or a myriad of other things so can our stories be as well in the life of others. But they have to be shared from the heart. If they are not then they will not accomplish what they could, the potential of the story won't be reached. Our stories will only be heartfelt when they are lived from that place as well. Don't be afraid of your heart, live from it and share from it.

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More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

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