When I was younger I drank a quart of brandy a day. This ended when I had to join AA, where I stayed for many years actually. There, they sell a generic spirituality which even an atheist might feel okay in embracing (if your life depends on it it helps). And in this phase of spiritual thinking I ran into many such thoughts. I must admit, they have great freeing power in them. Unfortunately - for me at least - they tend to come and then go, like novelties I encountered along the way. But I do know thinking certain ways can really change a person and make you feel happy in the face of adversity. I am atheist, but by the end of my tenure there, I actually wrote a prayer and posted it for the members to share. I used the word God for them, even though to me it's a generic term which means really "the universe" or such, not a reference to an entity with a mind. But to them, it meant what they wanted it to mean. I was just trying to sum up the wisdom they had imparted to me, poetically. Anyway, they reached me with their God stuff, and I left when it was over, and to keep I have still....oh...like I said these things fade, and you go back to being grumpy old defeated you...um, yea, for me that's correct...grumpy, defeated, depressed. BUT THIS IS WHAT MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW. I mean, I have but old age ahead. My future is in the past, and it was bleak!! It was awful, and thus so are the memories of my life. So it makes sense to feel a dull constant bad. I wish I had more people in my life, so I could live in jokes again. Jokes are good. So was music. I spent the last 4 years going without things so I could buy all the instruments of a rock band. And I have them now, but still I do not play them because in that time I have become too tired, and the doctors say I cannot be fixed. Good thing I know better than to drink again, as if I could get away with it "sometimes". For I cannot.. And good thing I have the cat, whom I would NEVER abandon, so he keeps me from giving up. He and I watch "telebishun" on the couch each night, and then go get in "the big bed" and sleep, and we start the day together too. Mmm... He's a better pal than loneliness! But this is WAY beyond the simple answer that was called for. Oh well, I always overdo and vanish anyway, you might as well get my story while you can.

Where do I scatter the sunshine, and won't it burn ?

Sounds like a meme that people put on Facebook. Forward this to 20 people and you'll be a millionaire by Friday. Don't forward it and you'll die.

It's a rather daft quote and nothing more than a platitude said by someone who has not lived much of a life. Few people have any hate in their heart - what they actually have are complex issues.

i think its a good quote

Sounds too much like,do unto others as you'll want them to do unto you.

The people around me, they'd see that as yet another opportunity to take as much advantage as possible. Really: in all my 60+ years I've never seen people who expect so much for free,. who treat you like crap whenever you're NOT giving them something for free - and I mean: literally moments before they ask you for something for free - and who get irate when you refuse to give them something for free. If I "gave much" this week, impoverishing myself in the process, I guarantee they would be angry at me next week because I didn't give them what I gave them this week.