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Life-giving people make an enormous impact in subtle ways. Chris Hodges

Are you a life-giver? If you are you probably don't know it. Most life-giving people are totally unaware that they are making a difference in the lives of others. And if they are told they are they wonder about it, seem confused by it, etc. See life-giving people are just doing what comes "naturally" to them. Did you know we are all created to be life-givers? And yet some of us, too many of us really, are actually sucking the life out of people. I call them "hoovers". :) We give life in a million different but usually very small and subtle ways. We can also suck the life out of people in very small and subtle ways. We all have within us the potential to make an enormous impact, it is up to us what kind of impact to make.
I don't know about you but I would prefer to be known as a life-giver rather than a hoover. I mean right? Who wants to be known for sucking the life out of people because of negative attitude or behaviors, high maintenance personality, critical spirit, poor work ethic, etc etc? Doesn't it sound better to be known for having an optimistic outlook, grateful heart, a compromising attitude, etc etc? It's up to you, daily, to decide if you are going to make a deposit or a withdrawal in the lives of others. Choose your impact wisely.

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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.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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