Good morning, Digital Neighbors! S.H.I.T. — Sure Happy It's Thursday!
Other than Valentine's Day, February is a pretty gray month of blandness. Lent is coming—still gray, but at least with a focus. A time of preparation for something more, a blossoming of new life that is slowly approaching. Until then, I make the best of these gray days of midwinter. I don’t find these days depressing—more messy and cold than anything else. I do enjoy going for rides with Rylee and looking through the trees in the countryside to see what is hidden during the rest of the year.

How about some quotes about feelings? Such a great thing when used properly, and yet so disastrous when they are enshrined as your sole guidance system. I cringe when I hear people constantly frame their statements with “I feel…” To me, it means nothing more than “I prefer this,” and that is all that matters. One should not discount feelings—they are our interior barometer and tell us a lot about ourselves—but they don’t tell us much about reality or how to deal with it.

Here are a few quotes on that wondrous part of ourselves that is meant to color life, but not direct our every decision. When people have nothing greater to strive for in life, emotional expression becomes their highest good and goal. Happy Thursday, my friends!

“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion.” — Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.” — Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.” — Euripides, Orestes

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