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9001.  Be careful when you open your oven (door).  You can get scalded by the steam coming out;

9002.  Health-promoting molecules are produced in abundance by stressed plants; we get resveratrol from grapes, aspirin from willow bark, metformin from lilacs, epigallocatechin gallate from green tea, quercetin from fruits and allicin from garlic;

9003.  Look for plants and foods made from plants that have been raised under less-than-ideal conditions, organic, small farm-raised or from our own backyard;

9004.  When plants are stressed, they often add extra color to their stems or leaves.  For example, when a plant or a fruit is exposed to too much light, you may have noticed it produces extra red, blue or purple pigments.  These are anthocyanins and they are produced not only by radiation damage, but drought, adverse temperatures, nutrient restriction, pathogens and wounding;

9005.  Pinot noir (wine) grapes have the highest resveratrol content because they are so stress-sensitive;

9006.  A (typical) meal should consist of: A)  1-2 palm-sized portions of protein; B)  1-2 fist-sized portions of vegetables; C)  1-2 thumb-sized portions of healthy fats; and D)  1-2 cupped-handful portions of carbohydrates can be added as needed (i.e., not every meal) depending on activity levels, goals and body type;

9007.  Boundaries are not a form of rejection;

9008.  We shouldn’t hide/downplay our success;

9009.  Taking responsibility isn’t the same as self-blame;

9010.  Our happiness isn’t dependent on others;

9011.  Self-abandonment isn’t how we show love;

9012.  We shouldn’t apologize for the things that aren’t our fault;

9013.  Internal validation is more important than external validation;

9014.  Our mistakes don’t define us;

9015.  People don’t have to acknowledge our emotions for them to be valid;

9016.  Our worth doesn’t come from our output;

9017.  It’s okay to change our minds;

9018.  Being vulnerable isn’t a weakness;

9019.  We don’t need to be happy all of the time;

9020.  (I can say) I’ve made duck a l’orange (with duck fat-mashed potatoes & arugula almond salad);

9021.  Hello Fresh (meal kits) is/are pretty good . . . and easy to make;

9022.  Getting a blowjob while cooking/making dinner . . . check;

9023.  (I can say) I’ve made teriyaki pork chops (with sesame scallion rice & ginger-scented carrots);

9024.  Using a/n (wood) angled turner as a paddle . . . check . . . using a wooden spoon as a sex toy . . . (double) check;

9025.  The $3.00 buffalo chicken tacos during Happy Hour at (Joe) Theismann’s (Restaurant) are pretty tasty;

9026.  Bad chapters can still create great stories.  Wrong paths can still lead to right places.  Failed dreams can still create successful people.  Sometimes it takes losing yourself to find yourself;

9027.  In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed;

9028.  When you get close to getting what you want, the resistance grows strongest;

9029.  The last yard is the hardest.  It’s okay to ask for help.  It’s okay if you’re not ready.  It’s okay if you want to give up, but it’s not okay to give up;

9030.  Hard is not a reason to stop.  Let the resistance be your guide.  Feel it.  Accept it.  Then move through it.  It’s not easy, but it’s worth it;

9031.  If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one;

9032.  What’s done is done.  Accept that you can’t change events of the past (although you can learn from them) and stop wondering “what if;”

9033.  Accept who you are and use all of what you know to propel yourself forward rather than focusing exclusively on goal attainment;

9034.  The solution for (the) “F(ear )O(f )M(issing )O(ut)” is being truly present, noticing everything and everyone around you – the big picture, the little pictures and all the tiny details that contribute to the moments that make up the here and now;

9035.  (The truth is that) other people’s disappointment (or pleasure) has very little to do with you;

9036.  The remedy for (the) “F(ear )O(f )D(isappointing )O(thers)” is setting boundaries;

9037.  People will often push boundaries, but there’s always one person who can set and honor your boundaries: You;

9038.  If you are unsure about trusting yourself, it will be almost impossible to remedy “FOMO” or “FODO” because staying present is hard and creating/enforcing your own boundaries will be very challenging;

9039.  If you are running on auto-pilot and constantly reacting to life’s demands, you may have lost track of who you are and what’s important to you.  The only way to trust yourself is to listen to your heart;

9040.  Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity;

9041.  People don’t respond to what you say or do; people respond to how you make them feel.  And one of the best ways to make someone feel connected with you is to make them feel understood and listened to;

9042.  We assume that because an emotion feels bad, it is bad;

9043.  Once you’ve labelled a whole class of emotions as “bad” or “negative,” you’re training your brain to view those emotions as threats and dangers to be eliminated or avoided at all costs;

9044.  The belief that emotions are dangerous and to be avoided is usually what causes serious emotional suffering in the first place;

9045.  Criticizing yourself for feeling sad is a great way to make yourself depressed;

9046.  Worrying about getting anxious is a great way to bring on a panic attack or chronic anxiety;

9047.  Judging yourself for feeling angry is a great way to feel perpetually ashamed and guilty;

9048.  When you treat your emotions like enemies, that’s what they’ll start to feel like;

9049.  Whatever your baseline preference for activity and movement, being constantly busy (e.g., always preoccupied with one thing or another and never really being present in the moment) is often a sign of a conflicted relationship with your emotions;

9050.  We use busyness as a distraction from painful feelings;

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8951.  If you really want to make an impact and move forward on your journey to significance, you have to go beyond yourself; you have to step outside yourself;

8952.  If you are struggling, stop feeling sorry for yourself and go out and help someone.  Add value to the world.  Turn your moping into mentoring and help someone climb the ladder in your world.  The best thing you can do for yourself is to make everyone around you better;

8953.  A reference is analogous art (to the claimed invention) if: (1) the reference is from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention (even if it addresses a different problem); or (2) the reference is reasonably pertinent to the problem faced by the inventor (even if it is not in the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention);

8954.  Whatever you’re not changing, you’re choosing;

8955.  The root of joy is gratefulness.  It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful;

8956.  You should photograph people either at the beginning of the day or at the end (of the day).  Photographers calls this “the golden hour;”

8957.  The worst time to photograph anyone is (in) the middle of the day.  Between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM, the sun is very high and directly above you (in the sky) so you’re going to get shadows under people’s eyes and you’re going to get lots of “hot spots” (i.e., areas of a photo that are significantly brighter than the rest) especially if s/he is wearing spring clothing, which tend to be pastel and light colors;

8958.  (In photographs,) stripes or intricate designs (on clothing) may not translate well digitally;

8959.  In photographs, try to wear solid colors or a pattern that’s not too busy;

8960.  In photographs, avoid white shirts.  They tend to be too bright and they create “hot spots;”

8961.  First, try.  Don’t not try out of fear of failure.  The next try, whether you “win” or you “learn,” may be the gateway to success;

8962.  I can accept failure.  Everyone fails at something.  But I can’t accept not trying;

8963.  There’s a huge difference between the statements “I failed” and “I am a failure;”

8964.  My blood is pretty worthless, but my plasma is gold;

8965.  “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy.

Oh divine master, grant that I may not seek so much to be consoled as to console.

To be understood, as to understand.

To be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is dying to self that we are born to eternal life;”

8966.  There’s no need to buy simple syrup.  To make it, use equal parts water and granulated sugar.  There’s no need to heat the mixture just stir until the sugar dissolves;

8967.  Don’t use room-temperature mixers when making a chilled cocktail.  Properly chilled carbonated mixers will better hold bubbles and lower the temperature of the drink to an optimal level.  The ice will melt more slowly minimizing dilution and maximizing enjoyment as you sip;

8968.  “Tate’s Bake Shop” walnut, chocolate chip cookies are (really) tasty;

8969.  Growth is an endlessly iterative process.  When we learn something new, we don’t go from “wrong” to “right.”  Rather we go from wrong to slightly less wrong.  We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection;

8970.  We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow;

8971.  Certainty is the enemy of growth.  Nothing is for certain until it has already happened and even then it’s still debatable.  That’s why accepting the inevitable imperfections of our lives is necessary for any growth to take place;

8972.  Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt about our own feelings and doubt about what the future may hold for us unless we get out there and create it for ourselves.  Instead of looking to be right all of the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time because we are;

8973.  Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change.  Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth;

8974.  We don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is.  Some of the most difficult and stressful moments of our lives also end up being the most formative and motivating.  Some of the best and most gratifying experiences of our lives are also the most distracting and demotivating.  Don’t trust your conception of positive/negative experiences.  All that we know for certain is what hurts in the moment and what doesn’t;

8975.  Most of what we come to “know” and believe is the product of the innate inaccuracies and biases present in our brains.  Many or even most of our values are products of events that are not representative of the world at large or are the result of a totally conceived past;

8976.  It was assumed that people did bad things because they felt horrible about themselves.  This is often not true.  In fact, it was usually the opposite.  Some of the worst criminals felt pretty good about themselves.  And it was this feeling good about themselves in spite of the reality around them that gave them the sense of justification for hurting and disrespecting others;

8977.  For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness;

8978.  Evil people never believe that they are evil; rather they believe that everyone else is evil;

8979.  Not only is certainty unattainable, but the pursuit of certainty often breeds more (and worse) insecurity;

8980.  The more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don’t know;

8981.  Uncertainty removes our judgments of others;

8982.  Uncertainty relieves us of our judgment of ourselves;

8983.  Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion;

8984.  Manson’s Law of Avoidance: The more something threatens your identify, the more you will avoid it;

8985.  Manson’s Law applies to both good and bad things in life;

8986.  We all have values for ourselves.  We protect these values.  We try to live up to them and we justify them and maintain them.  Even if we don’t mean to that’s how our brains are wired.  We’re unfairly biased toward what we already know, what we believe to be certain;

8987.  Until we change how we view ourselves, what we believe we are and are not, we cannot overcome our avoidance and anxiety.  We cannot change;

8988.  Buddhism argues that your idea of who “you” are is an arbitrary mental construction and that you should let go of the idea that “you” exist at all; that the arbitrary metrics by which you define yourself actually trap you and, thus, you’re better off letting go of everything;

8989.  When we let go of the stories we tell about ourselves, to ourselves, we free ourselves up to actually act (and fail) and grow;

8990.  There is little that is unique or special about your problems;

8991.  The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you.  For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.  This often means giving up some grandiose ideas about yourself: that you’re uniquely intelligent, spectacularly talented, intimidatingly attractive or especially victimized in ways other people could never imagine.  This means giving up your sense of entitlement and your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.  This means giving up the supply of emotional highs that you’ve been sustaining yourself on for years;

8992.  Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.  With freedom comes responsibility.  For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect;

8993.  After LSD . . . check;

8994.  Papa John’s “Shaq-a-Roni” pizza is (pretty) tasty;

8995.  (Adding) orange juice to/in (black) tea is (actually) all right;

8996.  Chances are you wouldn’t put up with anyone else talking to you the way you talk to yourself;

8997.  Popeyes’s chicken sandwich is (pretty) good, but I still like Chick-fil-A’s (chicken sandwich) more;

8998.  Hope is not a strategy.  Luck is not a factor.  Fear is not an option;

8999.  The reduced-fat turkey bacon and cage-free egg white sandwich (without cheese) at Starbucks is (pretty) tasty;

9000.  Would you love you if you met you?

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8901.  Don’t allow others to control relationships.  Consciously or not people look to pull others to the level where they are most comfortable.  While this can be a positive, often times it’s not, as it takes the form of gossip, criticism, doubt and negativity.  Emotionally strong people realize that sometimes they have to let people go;

8902.  Don’t waste energy on things you can’t control.  Fred Smith once said, “You must understand the difference between a fact of life and a problem.  A fact of life is something you can’t control or fix.  A problem is something you can fix;”

8903.  Don’t make the same mistakes.  John C. Maxwell has often said, “Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.”  It’s okay to make mistakes, but it’s not okay to repeat them.  Emotionally strong folks learn from their mistakes by reflecting on them, learning from them and taking a better course of action;

8904.  Don’t ride the emotional roller coaster.  Because no one’s immune to emotional highs and lows, we have to learn to level them out.  Maxwell talks about practicing the 24-hour rule: No matter what happens, give yourself 24 hours to process your response to an event good or bad.  After those 24 hours, put it behind you and take action on something else;

8905.  Understand, appreciate and grow through struggles.  Life is never going to be all sunshine and rainbows; the sooner we accept that fact of life, the sooner we can boost our emotional capacities.  And the sooner we learn to look at struggles, challenges and setbacks as opportunities to make us stronger, better, healthier, more robust and more resilient mentally and emotionally the better off we’ll be;

8906.  Apparently, you can be transferred on chat (and not just the telephone) too;

8907.  “Commitment” is doing things when you don’t know how to do it;

8908.  It’s (actually) pretty easy to make fried rice;

8909.  Pepperoni fried rice is (actually) pretty good;

8910.  Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal;

8911.  Being an outward conduit of love, kindness and selfless service to others as well as being a willing and grateful recipient of love, kindness and selfless service from others is what completes the circuit of abundance in life;

8912.  When someone gives and gives and gives without being in a place to also receive it doesn’t end up giving that person abundance.  That person just gets depleted.  Equally when person just takes and takes and takes without being in a place to also give back that person doesn’t feel abundance either.  That is also depleting;

8913.  You can ask your Google Nest Mini to play white noise/calming sounds (on a timer);

8914.  Apple cider/juice makes a good tea sweetener/flavoring;

8915.  In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are;

8916.  Forgiveness does not necessarily mean forgetting.  You can’t erase the past and you can’t change (or control) the person who hurt you.  Forgiveness does mean (that you are) letting go of the anger, pain and negativity that you’re harboring;

8917.  The past is the past.  Whatever happened, happened in the past.  The only place it still exists in the present is in your mind.  In other words, it’s not still happening, but it causes problems when you replay it in your mind over and over.  Instead of reliving it, focus on the present and the joy in your life now.  When your thoughts stray to the past, recognize it and bring them back to the present;

8918.  Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply;

8919.  I am the creator of time.  I make time for what matters and accept that I can’t do everything;

8920.  Dipping/dunking a(n) chocolate sandwich cookie/Hydrox/Oreo in (hot) coffee is tasty;

8921.  True wealth is businesses and assets that can earn while you sleep;

8922.  (A scoop of) ice cream in (hot) coffee is tasty;

8923.  Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage.  The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict;

8924.  It’s pretty easy to make sticky rice (with mango);

8925.  (I think it’s sad that) in a society where we’re so “connected,” we’re the least connected with ourselves.  There are so many ways where we can distract ourselves that stop us from actually feeling our emotions.  There’s alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex (i.e., dating apps, masturbation & pornography), social media, television (i.e., movies, sports & TV shows) and video games and they’re all more easily accessible than ever;

8926.  How you treat yourself is how the world will treat you;

8927.  The paradox of emotional release: Allow the feelings to be, let them release if they want to release, but, at the same time, to not require that they go anywhere;

8928.  Be willing to feel your emotions and acknowledge them for as long as they need to be felt and acknowledged.  If you can, allow that to happen without trying to hurry it along;

8929.  Try not to judge or blame others for whatever it is that has been triggered in you.  Feel the feeling, express the feeling, but don’t dive into the “meaning.”  We love to ascribe meaning to things, but, in this kind of situation, that doesn’t do us any favors/good;

8930.  Diving into the story, running the story around and around and thinking about apportioning blame, shame or guilt that just locks the energy in place.  It’s the opposite of letting go;

8931.  Forgiveness can be hard, but ultimately it frees the forgiver the most.  So that’s why it’s worth it;

8932.  Twix ice cream bars are pretty tasty.  I like them better than Milky Way or Snickers ice cream bars;

8933.  (Quick, one-minute) oatmeal (made) with white chocolate baking chips/morsels is pretty tasty;

8934.  More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.  Indecision is the thief of opportunity.  It will steal you blind;

8935.  Toxic positivity is avoidance;

8936.  When we minimize emotions, whether they are ours or not, we deprive the person of the ability to feel his/her emotions honestly and safely;

8937.  By trying to focus on only the lighter/positive and not giving space to the darker/negative emotions we feel, we make it harder on ourselves and our loved ones to heal and grow;

8938.  Harboring darker/negative emotions for long periods and not dealing with them worsens our health by causing extra stress;

8939.  When you force yourself to continually be happy or to adopt an excessive “positive vibes” mentality, you are communicating to other people that they should not have difficult emotions around you;

8940.  Albert Einstein said, “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself;”

8941.  According to John C. Maxwell, people who fail to get beyond themselves are usually selfish, insecure or both;

8942.  The world doesn’t owe you a living and you are not indispensable;

8943.  Gandhi put it best when he said, “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems;”

8944.  Growing beyond yourself starts with discovering your purpose, clarifying your priorities and getting passionate about life.  The fastest way to get better is to hang out with better people;

8945.  According to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘what are we doing for others?’”

8946.  Life really takes off when we invest ourselves and our resources in others;

8947.  If you want to surround yourself with great people, you need to work at becoming a great person;

8948.  Since we attract the people most like ourselves, take an honest inventory of the people surrounding you (right) now;

8949.  6 ways to get beyond yourself (according to John Maxwell): 1.  Quit taking yourself so seriously; 2.  Quit thinking that the world owes you a living; 3.  Quit believing you are indispensable; 4.  Start seeing through other people’s eyes; 5.  Start placing value on others; and 6.  Start understanding your purpose on earth;

8950.  If you really want to make an impact and move forward on your journey to significance, you have to go beyond yourself; you have to step outside yourself;

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8851.  Accepting responsibility for our problems is the first step to solving them;

8852.  A lot of people hesitate to take responsibility for their problems because they believe that to be responsible for your problems is to also be at fault for your problems;

8853.  There are problems that we aren’t at fault for yet we are still responsible for them;

8854.  Fault results from choices that have already been made.  Responsibility results from the choices you’re currently making every second of every day;

8855.  There’s a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and that person actually being responsible for your situation.  Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation, but you.  Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness, but you.  This is because you always get to choose how you see things, how you react to things, how you value things.  You always get to choose the metric by which to measure your experiences;

8856.  Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new beginning;

8857.  Crying after sex . . . check;

8858.  “Pesci” means “fishes” in Italian . . . so Joe Pesci is really “Joe Fishes;”

8859.  Apparently, restaurants don’t like it when you’re drinking your cocktails to-go on a bench in front of their building;

8860.  Action isn’t everything, but without it nothing will ever change/improve;

8861.  We all get dealt cards.  Some of us get better cards than others.  And while it’s easy to get hung up on our cards and feel we got screwed over, the real game lies in the choices we make with those cards, the risks we decide to take and the consequences we choose to live with.  People who consistently make the best choices in the situations they’re given are the ones who eventually come out ahead in poker just as in life.  And it’s not necessarily the people with the best cards;

8862.  Sometimes what we see when looking at others depends on the window through which we are looking;

8863.  You don’t really need someone to complete you.  You only need someone to accept you completely;

8864.  (The original) Merriweather Post Pavilion was designed by Frank Gehry;

8865.  Rice and hoisin sauce is (pretty) tasty;

8866.  Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt;

8867.  Putting pears in oatmeal is a good combination;

8868.  Because of the amygdala, we pay 10 times more attention to negative news than to positive news.  And, for that reason, every news source is putting out 10 times more negative stories than positive ones.  It’s purely a matter of marketing to capture our attentions for more advertising revenue;

8869.  The average American adult spends nearly 6 hours each day watching TV – about 30% of our waking hours.  Yet few pause to consider how this massive input impacts our outlook;

8870.  A study of 180 undergraduate students found that anxiety and total mood disturbance increased after watching a 15-minute news segment.  Those levels remained elevated unless students explicitly engaged in relaxation exercises following the viewing period;

8871.  A 2017 study by the American Psychological Association found that over half of Americans feel news consumption causes them stress that leads to sleep deprivation and increased anxiety;

8872.  What you let into your mind influences your thoughts, conversations and feelings, which can drive fear and anxiety for many.  These emotional states are associated with increased levels of cortisol also commonly known as the “stress hormone,” which often causes inflammation and reduces the immune system’s efficacy;

8873.  A woman can get a hickey on her breast. . . . Who knew?

8874.  Breast hickey . . . check;

8875.  If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.  The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability;

8876.  You are already choosing in every moment of every day what you care about so change is as simple as choosing to care about something else;

8877.  People think happiness is a destination and not a choice.  People think love is something that just happens and not something that you work for.  People think being “cool” has to be practiced and learned from others rather than be invented for yourself;

8878.  Each individual gets to decide what is “enough” and that love can be whatever you let it be;

8879.  What goes on when you sleep: 1.  Your brain recharges; 2.  Your body releases important hormones; and 3.  Your cells repair themselves;

8880.  You need different amounts of sleep depending on your age: 1.  Newborns (0-3 months): 14-17 hours; 2.  Infants (4-11 months): 12-15 hours; 3.  Toddlers (1-2 years): 11-14 hours; 4.  Preschoolers (3-5): 10-13 hours; 5.  School-age children (6-13): 9-11 hours; 6.  Teenagers (14-17): 8-10 hours; 7.  Younger adults (18-25): 7-9 hours; 8.  Adults (26-64): 7-9 hours; and 9.  Older adults (65+): Sleep range is 7-8 hours;

8881.  Men have dreams about other men 70% of the time, but women dream about women and men equally;

8882.  We can only dream about faces we’ve already seen whether we actively remember them or not;

8883.  Parasomnia is a type of sleep disorder that makes you do unnatural movements despite being asleep such as sleep driving, writing bad checks, murder, child molestation and rape;

8884.  12% of people dream only in black and white a number that used to be higher prior to the advent of color televisions;

8885.  Dreaming is normal.  People who do not dream generally have personality disorders;

8886.  Sleep positions may determine your personality: 1.  Fetal (41%) – Gruff initially, but have warm and open hearts; 2.  Log (15%) – Social butterflies; 3.  The Yearner (13%) – Perceived as open, but truly suspicious; 4.  Soldier/Corpse (8%) – Reserved; 5.  Freefall (7%) – Fun and fantastic at parties; and 6.  Starfish (5%) – Excellent listeners;

8887.  1 in 4 married couples sleep in separate beds;

8888.  British soldiers were the first to develop a method of staying up 36 hours without sleep.  When fatigued, they put on special visors that emulated the brightness of a sunrise and it woke them up;

8889.  Koalas are the longest-sleeping mammals (at 22 hours/day) while giraffes which sleep only 1.9 hours a day (in 5- to 10-minute increments) are the shortest-sleeping;

8890.  When dolphins sleep, only half of their brains shut down.  The other halves stay awake to help with breathing cycles;

8891.  You’ll die from sleep deprivation before starvation.  It takes 2 weeks to starve, but 10 days without sleep can kill you;

8892.  Blind people can still see images in dreams;

8893.  Within 5 minutes of waking, 50% of your dream is forgotten, and, within 10 minutes, 90% is gone;

8894.  1 out of 50 teenagers still wet their beds;

8895.  You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight;

8896.  Forgiveness isn’t something you do for the other person, it’s a gift you give to yourself;

8897.  Forgiveness has its own pace and its own grace.  It’s a process and that process may look different for everyone, but it doesn’t start until you’re willing;

8898.  No matter how materially wealthy or otherwise lucky you may be a blackened heart taints everything;

8899.  Proactively deal with emotions.  We should never become victims of our emotions.  That’s not to say that we should suppress them.  We just need to be consciously aware of them and avoid reacting emotionally;

8900.  Don’t waste time with self-pity.  We can be our own worst enemies especially when we drown ourselves in the negative light of the worst-case scenario we tend to paint for ourselves.  Although it can be tempting to exaggerate our circumstances, face reality, take action, practice gratitude, serve others and get outside of yourself;