They Said It, Not Me

I found this quote a few weeks back and I thought I would share it with you. It definitely lifts me up on a down day and I hope it can do the same for you. It's funny though, I never used to like these things. Quotes used to always make me feel like whatever I said was really stupid or I felt like a person didn't truly mean something if they got their words from someone else. See, I got the plagarism talk slammed at me year after year throughout school. It got old really fast, they had the message burned into my brain before a month into year two. Teachers especially caught my attention when they told me I could be expelled if I plagarized. So, because I don't want to sound like a hypocrite, that picture came from amazon.com. There, now my conscience is clean and I can go on with my life.

Quotes are interesting. There are some that give credit to the person who orginally uttered them, and there are others that just say "anonymous." Those always make me wonder. Did the person not what to be known for that quote? Did their name get lost as the quote got passed? Did they want to let someone else take credit for their words? If someone just randomly decided to quote you today, what would you do? How would you respond? Would you want people to know that you said it, or would you want that random person to just say that they heard it from a friend? It could happen you know. You could inspire someone, touch their heart in a way that leaves a mark. Whether it's a good or bad mark all depends on what you said. So, I'm gonna leave you with this: be careful what you say to people, even the ones you pass on the street cause you never know who's listening and whether or not they'll take what you said to heart.